I have to cut out a part of a video, crop it and blackout two parts. I do this with: ffmpeg -y \ -ss 00:19:49 \ -i 2021-03-25ToastmastersClubAvond.mp4 \ -to 442 \ -vf " crop = 1440:1080:240:0 , drawbox=enable='between(t, 0, 2)' : color = black : w = in_w : h = in_h : thickness = fill , drawbox=enable='between(t, 339, 342)' : color = black : w = in_w : h = in_h : thickness = fill " \ -acodec copy \ -vcodec libx264 \ -crf 23 \ speechClean2.mp4
The reason I do -to in the output is that in this way the metadata concerning the video length is less out of whack. I was wondering if this is a good way, or that it could be done better? Also, beside the timestamps the parameters for drawbox are the same. Is there a way that I do not have to repeat them? I started the crf with 16, then 20 and lastly 23. The input file has: Stream #0:1(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1920x1080, 2070 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 30k tbn, 60k tbc (default) With crf 16 I get: Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1440x1080, 5541 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 12800 tbn, 50 tbc (default) With crf 20 I get: Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1440x1080, 3538 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 12800 tbn, 50 tbc (default) And with crf 23 I get: Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1440x1080, 2444 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 12800 tbn, 50 tbc (default) So to me it seems that the crf value is still to high. Is there a way to use the kb/s to calculate the crf value to use? -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".