I have tried kdenlive, as the “easiest” simplest video editor. Bu this old guy can’t figure it out. I have a two and half minute .mp4 file and I want to remove the last minute or so. None of the tools are obvious. The help menus are not helpful to me. I cannot even begin. I see nothing that lets me highlight the section to cut. Before that, it won’t transcode the file from .mp4 to whatever code it has to be in. The youtube videos are about adjusting the clip but not how to trim the thing. Any help is gratefully received.
Hi, try openshot it’s much simple and easy to learn
I have the same problem with kdenlive, I can’t figure out how to use it ! Ha Ha Ha.
I used Shotcut, which is qt based and very intuitive. Try that, it is in the repo.
avidemux from Packman
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After @conram recommended Openshot, I installed it. All I needed to do was cut the last minute of a video. I had to do a bit of learning but it worked. Certainly the easiest I tried so far! Next, I will try to make a “video” of about 100 still pics. I will take a look at @venanks and @Sauerland recommendations to see if they to make a “video.” Thanks for the advice and make my chore easier!
Tried installing avidemux via yast. It said it installed but never showed in the start menu. I just tried to uninstall it and only two files showed up, not the other files the install brought in. Is there a CLI command to pull out those remaining files?
Because YaST (and zypper) installs never show files, but packages (and a package can have many files), I assume you mean that the avidemux package drew in two dependent packages.
When I look here in Leap 15.6, and select avidemux for installation, it also selects avidemux-cli. Thus that might be one of the two you saw.
Maybe use YaST > Software Management and search for avideumx. It will show you a list of packages with that string in the name. Maybe you see two of them installed.
And when I clicj “Accept” for installation YaST shows in a pop-up that it also selected libdcaenc0 and libaften0.
But take care. These packages might also be needed by other software that is installed. Thus bluntly removing them may create problems.
# zypper remove -u avidemux3
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following 5 packages are going to be REMOVED:
avidemux3 avidemux3-qt5 avidemux3-qt5-lang libaften0 libdcaenc0
5 packages to remove.
Package install size change:
| 0 B required by packages that will be installed
-27.4 MiB | - 27.4 MiB released by packages that will be removed
Backend: classic_rpmtrans --dry-run
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y):
#
Should remove avidemux and all dependencies no longer needed.
I assume he then first has to install avidemux3 again. Else the answer will be that it is not installed at all.
I did use yast as you suggest. It showed only two packages and I used yast to remove them. There were more than two files brought in with the install. As suggested above, maybe they are needed for other things.
Correct. Zypper can’t find avidemux3 and says “nothing to do.” Now, I worry about removing the other files in case they are needed elsewhere and I mistake “install” for an “update” on those.
In fact, why worry? They do no harm and I guess there no lack of disk space.
You cold look inside your /var/log/zypp/history to see, what you have installed at the time you installed avidemux.
I used avidemux for years now, but as I see, avidemux does not work here on Leap 16.0 with wayland.
Well, … just install avidemux3 again and then do
zypper remove -u avidemux3
That should remove avidemux3 as well as all unneeded dependencies.
Thanks for this info. In addition to the two avidemux3 files, these were installed:
libfaac0
libdcaenc0
libaften0
Since altogether they take up about 500kb, I’ll just leave them in case they are used elsewhere.
If you are confortable with CLI you can use ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:00 -to 00:01:30 -c copy firstpart.mp4
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When they were installed in the same session as avidemux3 was installed, then the chance that they are required by something else will be minimal, except when you installed other packages (in the same usage area) since.
It might be a bit pedantic, but I think there is still a case for old fashioned pencil and paper. When one starts installing something just for experimenting, just write down what YaST (or zypper) tells you it is doing. Easy enough.
@Prexy If you are using Yast there is an option to remove the included packages when you install a certain application. It’s in the option-clean up after deleting packages.
This is the same as the --unneeded flag shown by @susejunky
And it is not limited to YaST Software. Myrlyn, the maintained and better alternative, has the same “Cleanup when deleting packages” function (which is the grahpical expression for the --unneeded flag).