[SOLVED] Video-editing software for removing pixels from the top and bottom of a video

Grabby · 01-20-2020, 01:09 PM

Hi,

I need to remove from some videos a few pixels from the top a few from the bottom as well, thus cropping the video.
Could you please suggest an easy to use software that allows me to do that, possibly automatically, to a whole folder full of videos?

Thanks

Grabby

ondoho · 01-20-2020, 03:28 PM

I would write myself a script with ffmpeg.
First I'd figure out how to crop the video with ffmpeg - through a web search, reading the docs etc.
Then I'd wrap it in a script like this:

Code:

for film in *mp4 *avi *mkv; do
    ffmpeg -i "$film" -doing -things "$film".cropped
done

teckk · 01-20-2020, 04:23 PM

Or if you don't want to re-encode all of them. Crop them as you play them.

Code:

mplayer -really-quiet -identify -frames 0 MyVid1.mp4
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
...
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=4
ID_FILENAME=MyVid1.mp4
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=1099992
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=768
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=432
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
...

Crop a little off of the top and bottom.

Code:

mplayer -vf crop=768:426:0:4 MyVid1.mp4

jefro · 01-20-2020, 09:00 PM

Above posts are correct.

If you really do need pixel then I think this will still work. https://video.stackexchange.com/ques...eo-with-ffmpeg

Grabby · 01-21-2020, 04:38 AM

Thanks a lot!