I want to extract a clip of a larger video file.
How do I accomplish this?
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Sign up to join this communityIf you need to script it, you could use ffmpeg.
To save a single frame:
ffmpeg -i video.mpg -an -ss 00:01:43 -t 00:00:01 -r 1 -s 320x240 video%d.jpg
where ss is the start time, t is the end time (relative after the start). If you want to generate a frame every 5 seconds thoughout the entire video:
ffmpeg -i test.avi -r 0.2 -s 640x480 image%02d.jpg
where r is the frame rate .2 = 1/5 of the nominal 24 fps.
Quickest way (if in Windows) is to use Windows Movie Maker, it should allow you to edit pretty much any video that you can use in Windows Media Player and shrink, clip or anything.
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