I've just tried 3 different Linux video editors to accomplish a simple task, removing a few segments from an MP4 file. All three programs failed spectacularly. Any recommendations for a reliable program?
First I tried losslesscut. The UI let me create clips, but when they were rendered, they were mispositioned by several seconds. Apparently the program cuts only at "keyframes" and not where you actually request the cut. So then I tried vidcutter. The UI let me specify exactly the cuts I wanted. But I could not export the results to a video file. The save operation simply didn't do anything. It claimed "FILE SAVED" but no output file was present anywhere on disk. I tried quitting & restarting vidcutter, and then it refused to read the project file it had written, claiming the file had a syntax error. So then I tried kdenlive. The UI again let me specify exactly the cuts I wanted. Then kdenlive crashed. I restarted, reloaded the video, tested it, and exported the clips to an MP4 file. After waiting 23 minutes for the export to complete, the process halted with 15 seconds left to render. No error. The resulting video file contained 46 minutes of random pixels. Finally, I tried just plain ffmpeg to extract the clips I wanted: ffmpeg -i VIDEO.mp4 -ss $1 -to $2 -c:v copy -c:a copy clip.mp4 Some of the resulting clips had the audio & video out of sync. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you. Dan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
