On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:11:50 +0800 William Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20/12/21 13:40, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > On 20/12/21 11:17 am, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick > >> edit of a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of > >> the middle?) > >> > >> BillK > >> > >> > >> > > > > How easy should it be? Won't ffmpeg allow you to do this type of > > thing but you need to do a bit of work to get what you need - no > > nice GUI? > > > > Andrew > > > I am using ffmeg now to reduce the video size. Its a Christmas > message taken on a lumix camera that needs to be sent a few thousand > km over what may be a flakey mobile link. I just wanted something I > can play a video, click on a point and delete everything before that. > Same at the end. Looking at kdelive its a stupidly complex program > that has a steep learning curve to do the above. > > BillK > > > The one thing if you are wanting to reduce video size, after getting something that is the "just the right bits" video, send it as a HEVC encoded video. Generally it's h.264 once you have a "web" video, but I have found I can reduce to 1/20 to 1/50 often taking that to HEVC for a 1080p video. And... You may not need/want it at that high a resolution.
