Losslessly Cutting Short Video Samples - Tutorial Thread [XMedia Recode]

[raffriff42]

This tutorial should be useful for people needing to make a short sample of their video without
recompressing it, in order to share it (through DropBox, Onedrive, Mediafire etc) on this forum,
for purposes of getting help.

There are lots of ways to do it - ffmpeg for one:ffmpeg -i "abc.avi" -c copy -ss 1:00 -t 1:00 "out.avi"...but for command line phobes, get XMedia Recode (https://www.google.com/search?q=XMedia+Recode). Run it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jffatbfokmsaqyz/XMedia-copy-tut-01.png?raw=1
Load your video with File, Open or drag-and-drop.
Format tab:Profile="Custom"
Format=(same as your source)
FileExtension=(same as your source)


https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfgnwkjsc304nb3/XMedia-copy-tut-02.png?raw=1
Output steam type="Video and Audio"
Set Output to "Input Folder" and select "Not overwrite"


If there are only two tabs visible (Format and Queue), select (highlight) your video in the
list box at top of the XMedia window; the other tabs shown in these screen shots will appear.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nz8ge4274uczptz/XMedia-copy-tut-03.png?raw=1
Video tab: Mode="copy"
Audio tab: same


https://www.dropbox.com/s/avdb2rr5gorjid4/XMedia-copy-tut-05.png?raw=1
Filter/Preview tab: move around your video in the usual way.
Click [ to set an In point
Click ] to set an Out point about 10 seconds later.


On the main toolbar, click Add to queue
Again on the main toolbar, click Encode

The job should take mere seconds to complete.

[Bruce/Fl]

Thank you very much for that! That is extremely awesome! And judging by my googling last night, there are many others out here who need to know about that, many looking for ways to do exactly what that does.

[Bruce/Fl]

Also, when I trimmed down my .mov file, being old 8mm film it had no sound. Running it with "video only" selected was perfectly fine in that case, correct? (Obviously if the file had sound I'd select both, if I wanted both)

[raffriff42]

Oh, sure, that's fine.