Extract one minute clip of video using ffmpeg

Extract one minute clip of video using ffmpeg

Here’s how you can extract the first one minute of any mp4 file using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -ss 0 -t 60 -c copy out.mp4

Here’s a .bat script to extract all mp4 in the current folder, to a folder in the current directory named ‘clips’, while retaining the same file name.

for %%a in ("*.mp4") do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -ss 0 -t 60 -c copy "clips\%%~na.mp4"

Done ! Now you don’t have to manually extract clips using various softwares.