Windows-based tool for efficient browsing and cutting video footage
Windows-based tool for efficient browsing and cutting video footage
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Let's imagine you have hours of video footage, dozens of files (videos from your vacations, material copied from your action camera or a drone etc.). Usually only a small portion of this material is worth keeping. So you would like to check the whole material and extract the most interesting/best parts as separate videos (and store them in your archive or publish on YouTube, TikTok etc.). And this is where the simple-video-cutter tool comes in. It helps you quickly browse your videos, preview them and extract interesting parts into separate video files. The main goal is to make this process as efficient as possible. You don't have to select the next file from disk manually, just press "next" and next file (ordered by date) is loaded automatically. Location and filenames of created video cuts are assigned automatically basing on patterns specified in the configuration. The extraction process is done in background (by FFmpeg), so you can work with next material whilst the previous tasks are being processed.
(Check also translations in README.txt)
SimpleVideoCutter.exe
in that directoryNote: see below in case you are going to install SimpleVideoCutter in a directory where users do not have write access.
[
(or click the correspnding button) to mark start of your cut]
to mark end of your cutE
(or click 'Enqueue' button) to add task to the queue.
Selected portion of the video will be extracted (with help of FFmpeg) and saved in a new file(s).In the settings window you can adjust some options, especially directory and filename pattern of the output files. Supported variables are:
{FileName}
- name of the input video file (with extension){FileNameWithoutExtension}
- name of the input video file (without extension){FileExtension}
- extension of the input video file (with dot){FileDate}
- last modification date of the input file (in format yyyy-MM-dd-HHmmss
){Timestamp}
- current timestamp (in format yyyyMMddHHmmss
){UserVideos}
- shortcut for Environment.SpecialFolder.MyVideos
{UserDocuments}
- shortcut for Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments
{MyComputer}
- shortcut for Environment.SpecialFolder.MyComputer
{SameFolder}
- allows to save files in same folder when original video file is locatedIt is possible to install SimpleVideoCutter into a non-writable directly. In this case one has to manually install FFmpeg and configure its path in the settings.
Configuration file by default is saved in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\SimpleVideoCutter
(which should be writable for end users). Alternatively, the following command line options can be used to specify different location of config file:
--configCurrentFolder
- in the same folder where exe file is located--configLocalApplicationData
- in the AppData\Local folder
(this is the default)--configApplicationData
- in the AppData\Roaming
folder (this means the file is copied when user logs in on another machine in domain environment). Please note this option may be useful only if ffmpeg path points to a shared resource as well (e.g. network drive) or it is expected ffmpeg is always installed in the same place on all machines.Email: [email protected]