Linux HOWTO: Video Editing Magic with ffmpeg

Linux Journal Presents:
Non-linear video editing tools are great, but they're not always the best tool for the job. This is where a powerful tool like ffmpeg becomes useful. This tutorial covers the basics of transcoding video, as well as more advanced tricks like creating animations, screen captures, and slow motion effects.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Linux
• Journal
• ffmpeg
• transcode
• encode
• decode
• video
• movie
• mpeg
• avi
• convert
• special
• effect
• cinelerra
• animation
• slow
• motion

[DonPaps]

In 09:49, to be able to concatenate videos, I used this command:

cat part1.mpg part2.mpg part3.mpg | ffmpeg -y -f mpeg -i - output.mpg

Just as an alternative. I haven't tried cat part1.mpg part2.mpg part3.mpg > output.mpg

[XPZION7]

dificult !

[WalangMagawaProd]

This is way cool!but i do have a question and hope you can answer it. Do you have another way of making the slow motion video without the pipes since i'm running under windows xp and as you know, WIN32 doesn't support pipes. Is there another way to do it?

[JohannesSM64]

You can automate certain tasks with batch scripts, yes. But you can automate EVERYTHING with zsh scripts ;)

[1888junkteam]

yikes i got a ways to go before i understand this

[TheForgottenPoops]

I prefer the command line to the GUI myself, many people might call it in unintuitive, but I think it's fun and you can automate certain tasks with batch scripts.

[wilhelmschumann]

***** !

[kirgy9]

very interesting, thank you for making this!

[gr0gmint]

dickedy

[codycod10]

???