| smbhax [sys=PC; cat=Utility; reg=PAL] |
| | | https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
Cut/merge video segments, usually immensely quicker, and always much more precisely, than in my old standby, version 7.1.8.0 (they completely revamped it with less functionality after that) of Any Video Converter ("AVCFree"). : P (I still keep that around for making animated GIFs out of video clips.)
Can't seem to mute the audio in a segment, which would be convenient for YouTube prep ie smothering copyright claims. Workaround is to export the segment, load it up and save out the audio and video tracks separately, load the AAC audio in Audacity, Effect-Amplify -50 (max), save that out as AAC .m4a, load the video track in LC, add the muted audio track to it and select "Longest" merge--the time stamps seem to differ slightly?--then export that out, then you've got your muted segment that is now merge-compatible with other segments; if you'd tried merging the video-track-only version of the segment, the video-only part of the merged video wouldn't play in MPC-HC (video player), which makes me suspect YouTube might not handle it well either. |
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| | | The "Smart cut (experimental)" Export option locked up my computer. : P
So really the program only cuts on keyframes--so use the keyframe browsing buttons to find the actual valid start/end times.
Hm okay you can turn off the default "Keyframe cut mode" in options but it says it may leave blank time at the start--which isn't great for a YouTube video. |
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| | | LosslessCut can't seem to handle the output of OBS's FFmpeg PCM (24-bit) audio encoder. But hm when I disable the audio track it still can't handle it. And it can't seem to extract the audio track.
AVCFree can't seem to do anything with it either. Maybe it's also something to do with the "hybrid mp4" format. (Google "AI" auto-junk says LosslessCut is the premier chose for editing OBS' industry-leading hybrid mp4, or somelike markety nonsense. Really upbeat on products, that "AI.")
So if I need to edit something I have to convert it down through HandBrake first. ; P
Eh hm or maybe I can extract the audio with Audacity and add it in in LosslessCut... Nope the mp4 is just static in Audacity huh.
Ah ffmpeg can extract the audio, like "ffmpeg -i mobed.mp4 -c:a copy mobed2.wav". And yep Lossless can then take it as an added track. So that works, faster than reprocessing the whole darn thing through handbrake. |
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| | | | Has trouble handling videos that originated as Hybrid MPG *w/ PCM audio* in OBS (see entry 1636). |
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