Program to batch trim videos?

**Ice Bank** · Mice Elf Joined: 11 May 2013 Posts: 1664 Location: USA

I have about 60 video clips that I would like to trim, and doing it one at a time would be a pain. Basically, just want a program that would accept all of them, let me tell it to trim the first xx seconds and the last yy seconds, and it will do its thing to all the movies at once.

Anything like that? Better yet - anything like that which is free? Cool

Thanks.

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

take a look at FFMPEG. free and handles just about every batch command you could think of

**Ice Bank** · Mice Elf Joined: 11 May 2013 Posts: 1664 Location: USA

Thanks - is that easy to use? Is there a GUI? It looks like command line stuff from the examples I saw.

**Ice Bank** · Mice Elf Joined: 11 May 2013 Posts: 1664 Location: USA

That seems complicated... Tried a few others, too... whoo, these are advanced!

Crisis · Rated NC-17 Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 182

I don't know of one that can batch process, but you can try Avidemux. You'll manually select the area you want to keep then just export the media without re-encoding (choose copy for audio and video).

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/index.html

You might also consider these two software, but I haven't tried them yet. They do support splitting video files

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/My-MP4Box-GUI
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix