If using the former, you can leave out the milliseconds HOURS:MM:SS as we did in our example. To specify time, you can use two different time unit formats: sexagesimal ( HOURS:MM:SS.MILLISECONDS, e.g. The -c:v copy -c:a copy commands copy the original audio and video without re-encoding. In the above command, we cut 10 minutes from the 00:05:20 mark. ss specifies the starting position and -t specifies the duration from the start position. The above command will take the input video input.mp4, and cut out 10 minutes from it starting from 00:05:20 (5 minutes and 20 second mark), i.e. Cut using a duration $ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:05:20 -t 00:10:00 -c:v copy -c:a copy output1.mp4 ss can be used in different ways, depending on how you want to cut the video.

To cut a specific part of a video, you use the seeking option -ss to get to a specific part that you want to cut. We'll take a look at how to use the seeking parameter -ss, but you can also use other commands such as the trim filter. Cut/trim a video with FFmpegįFmpeg offers different commands that you can use to split up a video. We'll finish off by looking at how you can achieve the same results using Shotstack - a cloud-based video editing API. We'll look at some FFmpeg commands that you can use to trim a video into different parts and then see how you can take different videos and concatenate them into a single video. We'll see how to do exactly that using FFmpeg - a command-line utility that can be used to create, edit and process different types of media. When editing a video, you might want to cut out some parts or you might want to stitch together different videos by cutting sections from different sources and concatenating them into a single video. A common feature of video editing applications is the ability to cut/trim videos.

Ffmpeg command line examples