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Editing Workshop Videos

I sometimes use Google Meet, Teams, Zoom, etc. to record workshops and talks. These record the entire session, including before and after the actual talk, and save it as large MP4 files. I use ffmpeg to trim the video to just the talk, and then compress it for sharing. I’m sharing the options that work for me, discovered by trial-and-error. To trim it, I use the following command: ffmpeg -ss 00:10:00 -to 02:10:00 \ -i "original.mp4" \ -map 0 \ -c copy \ -avoid_negative_ts make_zero \ -movflags +faststart \ new.mp4 Arguments: ...

2006 1

Brilliant video editing

Here’s a “music video” with brilliant video editing.

2005 2

Google Video Downloader

Google Video Downloader. Comments Madhu 5 Jan 2006 8:40 am: Have you tried www.youtube.com Google will probably take it over! S Anand 5 Jan 2006 6:00 pm: I use it. But why would Google take over? They already have a pretty good service… Madhu 6 Jan 2006 12:11 pm: Why not? MSN will take over otherwise. shekar 14 Jan 2006 11:06 pm: s anand, I saw your Swindon vidoes. They are edited very well. What software did you use? Especially the blue first screen. S Anand 14 Jan 2006 11:31 pm: Microsoft Movie Maker. It came bundled with Windows XP on my office laptop.

Download Squad

Download Squad. A bunch of free (or cheap) software that will give you many of the tools used by special effects houses.