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+title: "How to trim a video using FFMPEG"
+date: 2022-09-28T18:46:32-04:00
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+Recently I came across a video that I wanted to split up into multiple files. Given my love for `ffmpeg` the video/audio swiss armyknife, I knew there had to be a solution for cutting a video on the terminal. Luckily on [AskUbuntu](https://askubuntu.com/a/56044), Luis Alvarado provides a command snippet. This post will go into slightly more detail on the flags used in the command
+
+```bash
+ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 \
+	-t 00:30:00 \
+	-i input.mp4 \
+	-vcodec copy \
+	-acodec copy \
+	output.mp4
+```
+
+| Command   | Description                                                  |
+| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `-ss`     | Position within the input file. Most file formats do not allow exact seeking, so ffmpeg will pick the closest seek point. Format is in *time duration* notation. |
+| `-t`      | Limits the duration of data read from the input file.  Format is in *time duration* notation. |
+| `-vcodec` | Format used to transcribe the video. Use `copy` to not transcribe to a different format. |
+| `-acodec` | Format used to transcribe the audio. Use `copy` to not transcribe to a different format. |
+
+Time duration notation follows the format `<HH>:<MM>:<SS>` where `HH` is the number of hours, `MM` is the number of minutes, and `SS` is the number of seconds.
+
+For this command in general, the output video length would be the same time duration as specified in the `-t` flag.