Category Archives: Video editing

Script for using ffmpeg to crop, pan and scale WMV to MOV

I’m responsible for coordinating weekly new-functionality demos for my company’s R&D organization.  Each week, a developer or product manager presents a half-hour demo of some new functionality to a local audience in one of our offices, using a big 1920×1080 digital TV as the local display, with a GoToMeeting session set up so that people… Read More: Script for using ffmpeg to crop, pan and scale WMV… »

Why is it so friggin’ hard to make trivial changes to a video?

I’ve got a video in WMV format that was recorded from a GoToMeeting session that I hosted. I want to chop a little off the front and a little off the end and otherwise leave the video unchanged.  I don’t want to change the format, the resolution, the compression, or anything — I just want… Read More: Why is it so friggin’ hard to make trivial changes… »