jadedgnome · July 27, 2014 12:48
diff --git a/get-teh-clip.sh b/get-teh-clip.sh
 #!/bin/bash

 echo "file name"
 read name

 #both the 'start' and 'end' variables should be time stamps of the format hh:mm:ss
 echo "start of clip"
 read start

 echo "end of clip"
 read end

 echo "output name"
 read out

 #this is for converting the times to seconds
 timeS=`echo $start | awk -F: '{ print ($1 * 3600) + ($2 * 60) + $3 }'`
 endS=`echo $end | awk -F: '{ print ($1 * 3600) + ($2 * 60) + $3 }'`

 #this calculates the duration of the clip based on the time stamps (mainly because my version of ffmpeg on Debian 7 doesn't have the -to command
 dur="$((endS - timeS))"

 ffmpeg -ss $start -i $name -c copy -t $dur $out

 #note: this only extracts the clip and does nothing else to the video, which makes it fast. You can, of course, edit this command to convert video formats, scale, and whatever else you can do with ffmpeg.
	#!/bin/bash

	echo "file name"
	read name

	#both the 'start' and 'end' variables should be time stamps of the format hh:mm:ss
	echo "start of clip"
	read start

	echo "end of clip"
	read end

	echo "output name"
	read out

	#this is for converting the times to seconds
	timeS=`echo $start \| awk -F: '{ print ($1 * 3600) + ($2 * 60) + $3 }'`
	endS=`echo $end \| awk -F: '{ print ($1 * 3600) + ($2 * 60) + $3 }'`

	#this calculates the duration of the clip based on the time stamps (mainly because my version of ffmpeg on Debian 7 doesn't have the -to command
	dur="$((endS - timeS))"

	ffmpeg -ss $start -i $name -c copy -t $dur $out

	#note: this only extracts the clip and does nothing else to the video, which makes it fast. You can, of course, edit this command to convert video formats, scale, and whatever else you can do with ffmpeg.