How to Trim Videos Using Python and FFMPEG

[@nash-p]

Thank you so so much, I've been trying for over two hours to figure out the syntax for trim. Not only do I know how to use trim, but I found a better way to cut audio with the filter method 👍

[@CodingWithAdam]

You’re welcome! I’m really glad the tutorial helped. Happy to hear you also found a better way to cut audio 😁

[@mangoship]

This was very helpful, thanks!

[@CodingWithAdam]

You’re welcome!

[@CarlosHenrique-er7zq]

Thank you for the help, it was excatly what I needed.

[@CodingWithAdam]

You’re welcome!

[@JohnCarrFitness]

Excellent teaching! Keep it up! You’ve got a skill most programmers don’t!

[@CodingWithAdam]

Thank you!

[@radheykrishna3915]

Really? If so, he may join in the microsoft, right?

[@yao_barna]

Great tutorial, thanks! Very useful.

[@CodingWithAdam]

Thanks! You’re welcome!

[@birukgetnet1]

Thank you sir. It helped me alot.

[@CodingWithAdam]

You’re welcome! Happy it helped!

[@HoorayforOranges]

Hi, on line 10 of app.py why do you check for the format before checking for the duration, why not just call get on the duration key instead?

[@CodingWithAdam]

The format is a key on the in_file_probe_result the format then has a key on it called duration. Hope that helps!

[@hanaalalawi4321]

Thanks for this tutorial! Is it possible to trim based on a condition, for example, I want to trim based on a sentence

[@CodingWithAdam]

That's an interesting question. There is nothing I know that is built into FFMPEG that would do that. For this to be possible the video would have to transcribed and time coded to the transcription. It's a very interesting topic and if you figure it out please let me know.

[@hanaalalawi4321]

@@CodingWithAdam Sure, I'm still working on it.

[@AndreGomes-em5vy]

How to use this in Google Colab? How to ensure the installation of FFMPEG?

[@mylesgxtreme2106]

can you set it to cut multiple times in on video like take out 5 seccend every 30 second or so

[@CodingWithAdam]

I have not tried it but It seems like you should be able to. You would then join all the parts together to form a complete video.

[@yao_barna]

I just landed on this tutorial and haven't tried this much but once you have a function that works for a (startTime, endTime) interval, you could make use of this function to run it in the range you desire. It's just an idea of how to begin with.

[@alkispiskas3580]

Why do you use `probe_result.get("format").get("duration")` when you can use simply `probe_result["format"]["duration"]` ?

[@CodingWithAdam]

When you use get you can specify a default value if it is not found. I believe I specified a empty object as the default. You are 100% right that you can simply use the array key value. Both are valid approaches 😀

[@adityachauhan4325]

Hi, could you tell me why the video resolution is reduced by the code?

[@JohnCarrFitness]

Could you put that code on github to share?

[@CodingWithAdam]

Thanks for noticing the code was not linked. I updated the description and here is the link github.com/CodingWith-Adam/trim-videos-with-ffmpeg-python

[@JohnCarrFitness]

@@CodingWithAdam Thanks Adam! You da man! Can i ask.. how long have you been programming? I'm newer here.. thanks

[@CodingWithAdam]

You’re welcome! I’ve been programming for a long time almost 19 years. It’s a fun career with lots of learning. I started this channel as a hobby project to help mentor through interesting projects. Congratulations on learning to code it can be a lot of fun!

[@JohnCarrFitness]

@@CodingWithAdam So awesome Adam! I can tell you know this stuff much deeper than most youtubers. Please keep your channel up! Youre a great teacher!

[@CodingWithAdam]

Thank you John! I really appreciate the kind words. I’ll do my best :)