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Using FFMpeg to cut a video into 2 minute clips

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Mar 15, 202614809 views

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I have a video lasting 10 minutes which I want to cut into five 2-minute segments. I can use ffmpeg to cut a video to a specific time with the following: Do I first have to obtain the length of the video and then repeat the above command, or is there a simpler way to do this?

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ffmpeg -sameq -ss [start_seconds] -t [duration_seconds] -i [input_file] [outputfile]

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...will create files along the lines of 'out01.mp4 'out02.mp4', each one being 120 seconds in duration (except the last one, which may be shorter). Note that it has to split up the file on a keyframe, so you won't get 100% accurate splitting. See th…

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Using FFMpeg to cut a video into 2 minute clips

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