
If you want to copy to the end, you can omit the “-to endtime.” This command begins copying at the 1:27 minute mark and stop at the 3:02 minute mark. FFmpeg makes this super fast with this command: ffmpeg -ss 00:01:27 -i INPUT.mp4 \

Often, you just need a small segment, or clip, from a video.

There is a Windows version of FFmpeg and you could install Linux on your Windows 10 computer. We’re using the terminal window of Linux on the Chromebook. And we have shown how to get a video from the internet with youtube-dl. Previously, we have shown how to Create video slideshows with ImageMagick and FFmpeg in minutes and how to use FFmpeg with Google Earth.

(This is another post on using a Chromebook as a video tool for journalists. You can make quick work of trimming videos or capturing just the audio with FFmpeg and a Chromebook. Updated: Additional code examples, resource links, some corrections.
