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Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

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  • sorenjan
    I don't find trimming videos with ffmpeg particularly difficult, is just-ss xx -to xx -c copy basically. Sure, you need to get those time stamps using a media player, but you probably already have one so that isn't really an issue.What I've found to be trickier is dividing a video into multiple clips, where one clip can start at the end of another, but not necessarily.
  • kawsper
    I asked about this tool 3 days ago, HN is a magical place! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363432
  • tptacek
    This is very cool. I built one of these myself around Christmas; Claude Code can put one together in just a couple prompts (this is also how I worked out how to have Claude test TUIs with tmux). What was striking about my finished product --- which is much less slick than this --- was how much of the heavy lifting was just working out which arguments to pass to ffmpeg.It's surprisingly handy to have something like this hanging around; I just use mine to fix up screen caps.Commenting mostly because when I did this I thought I was doing something very silly, and I'm glad I'm not completely crazy.
  • chris_va
    Invoking ffmpeg, gzip and tar commands is a sort of reverse Turing test for LLMs
  • ariym
    I think this is the first instance I've seen of an actual terminal video player. Very fun to play with.
  • mhuffman
    I have been using this one[0] and it is small, fast, and seems to work pretty great for me so far.[0]https://github.com/wong-justin/vic
  • noiv
    On MacOs I just press space and trim with finder. Even avoids re-compressing.
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  • Acrobatic_Road
    Could have really used this a couple days ago. I had to record a video an assignment, but due to lack of global hotkeys on OBS with wayland, I had to start and stop the video on the OBS GUI. I tried to figure out ffmpeg but I was too tired and it was getting close to the deadline so I spent some time learning how to to do it with kdenlive.
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  • bfrjjrhfbf
    Having to separately download ffmpeg in the windows distribution does not really make senseJust bundle it
  • faangguyindia
    I've been using ffmpeg with claude as video editor for long time.
  • mandeepj
    I guess I can find another implementation to combine trimmed parts after taking out certain scenes?