[mythtv-users] OT: Mac OSX Simple Cutting

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Wed Aug 13 13:43:55 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:57:17PM -0700, Jon Bishop wrote:
> 
> On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:51 PM, belcampo wrote:
> 
> > Jon Bishop wrote:
> >> So, I have the opening ceremonies for the olympics, but I failed to
> >> remove the commercials before copying it to my powerbook g4 1.33. I
> >> already transcoded the 21gb HD video down to a 3.5gb xvid recording,
> >> so quicktime pro won't open it. I was wondering if the mac users out
> >> there have a good suggestion for a cheap, simple program to use to  
> >> cut
> >> the commercials (which I have to go in and manually mark) out, and
> >> possibly break this file into several smaller files, so I can place  
> >> it
> >> on CDs (yea, I know, just use a DVD... too bad my dvd burner is in
> >> storage, and inaccessible for the time being)
> >>
> >> I have Quicktime pro, Final Cut Studio, ffmpegX, MPEG Streamclip and
> >> VisualHub. I don't have iMovie (though I have the install disk
> >> somewhere, also in storage) installed, so other suggestions are
> >> welcome. Otherwise I'll be converting it to a Quicktime compatible
> >> format and using QT to cut it apart. I'd rather not do that. Thanks.
> >>
> >> ~Jon
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> > I'm no OSX user, but ffmpeg runs on OSX and could be used something  
> > like
> > this.
> > ffmpeg -ss starttime -t till -i source.??? -vcodec copy -acodec copy  
> > -f
> > ??? resulting.???
> 
> I haven't tried using the command line. ffmpegX is a gui that uses  
> ffmpeg or mencoder to do conversion. I guess that would work. I was  
> hoping for something that I could use a timeline to mark the cutpoints  
> (similar to how the mythfrontend editor works). Something that works  
> like virtualdub for windows...

You could see if there is a MacOS build for avidemux.


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