Or to crop the bottom right quarter, you'd call. To crop an 800×600 section, starting from position 100,50 you'd call.

x and y specify the top left corner of the output rectangle, also in pixels.

out_h is the height of the output rectangle in pixels,.

out_w is the width of the output rectangle in pixels,.

To crop videos, we'll use the -filter:v flag - a video filter, specifically the crop one: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v 'crop=out_w:out_h:x:y' output.mp4 Cropping #Ĭropping works exactly as you'd crop pictures - it lets you keep the desired area of the frame and throw away everything else. The -c copy part will make sure that ffmpeg does this without re-encoding the video. parts if you don't want to cut anything from the beginning, or from the end. t 10 will take 10 seconds after the starting point. you can also specify -t instead of -to if you want to trim X seconds after the starting point, e.g.-to is the end of the trim in the HH:MM:SS.xxx or SS.xxx format,.-ss is the start of the trim in the HH:MM:SS.xxx or SS.xxx format,.To trim a video, call: ffmpeg -ss 00:01:00 -i input.mp4 -to 00:02:00 -c copy output.mp4 The time trimming will take only depends on your storage speed, copying the necessary parts into a new file. Trimming lets us slice out a desired timespan from a video, and with ffmpeg we can do this without re-encoding it - this means that this action is almost 'instant', opposed to regular video editors. The last parameter is always the output name, conveniently no flag needed for that. The -i flag specifies an input, and they generally always come in the beginning. In the following examples I'll always use input.mp4 and output.mp4 as input and output respectively - just replace these with your actual filenames. These three might be the most often needed use cases I encounter. In this first installment of ffmpeg tutorials, let's take a look at trimming (something that makes a video smaller), cropping (something that makes a video smaller) and also, making videos smaller. Written by Tamás Deme on Fri Apr 29 2022.

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Ffmpeg trim video without re encoding