simple-video-cutter

This package is used to cut a source video into (multiple) smaller videos.

It requires Python 3.8 or higher and ffmpeg (and optionally Qt / PySide2).

Installation

This package is available as a package on PyPI:

pip install simplevideocutter

To include the optional GUI component with PySide2:

pip install simplevideocutter[gui]

Additionally, you will need ffmpeg available on your path. You can download it here: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html .

Usage

The commandline is callable using simplevideocut or svcut for short.

svcut --help

You can add --info or --debug flags to your commands for additional output.

Cutting a single video

This is done using the subcommand single. You can view the help for this with svcut single --help.

svcut single -src /path/to/sourecfile.mp4 -dst /path/to/mynewlycutvod.mp4 -start 01:11:22 -end 01:30:15

Cutting multiple videos using a timestamps file

This is done using the subcommand multi. You can view the help for this with svcut multi --help.

In this mode, the following information for each cut is read from a separate file, the so-called "timestamp specification file".

Timestamp spec file format

The file format requires that each line corresponds to a single cut, and must be formatted as:

start-time end-time destination-filename 
HH:MM:SS HH:MM:SS myexamplefile.mp4

For example:

01:12:34  01:15:44  soghent2_wf_Dia(Peach)_Nibodax(Bayonetta).mp4

Lines starting with a # symbol are ignored.

Command format

svcut multi -src /path/to/sourecfile.mp4 -dst /path/to/mycutvodsdirectory/ --timestamps-file /path/to/mytimestamps.txt

Cutting multiple videos using the graphical interface

NOTE: This is not implemented yet!

This is started using the subcommand gui: svcut gui.

This requires PySide2 to be installed, which is included in the optional component for gui installations. See the Installation section above.

Contributing

Requests and pull requests are welcome.

Uploading a new release

1. Clean out dist/*

2. Build new distributions

   python setup.py sdist python setup.py bdist_wheel

3. Upload to PyPI

   twine upload dist/*

License

This package (and only this package) is MIT licensed.

Note that ffmpeg is licensed differently.