To conclude, these are the easiest and most convenient ways to quickly crop videos in Linux. Wait for the terminal to deliver a success message. Your video re-encoding will start and you will see some output in a terminal. Input the dimensions of area you want to clipped away from four sides of the video, then click on “Convert” button. Add a video by clicking on the “Add” button. To start cropping a video in WinFF, click on the “Options” button to enable the “Crop” filter at the bottom. It can convert almost any video file that FFmpeg supports and it can use most of the FFmpeg filters as well.

WinFF is a graphical user interface for FFmpeg command line app. To save changes and re-encode the video, press. Avidemux will show a preview of cropped video where any green coloured region will be excluded from the final video. On the next screen enter the dimensions to be cut on all four sides of the video. Once you followed the above steps, click on “Video” and then click on “Filters”.ĭouble click on the “Crop” filter on the next window. To fix it, you have to change “Video Output” from “Copy” to any other format as shown in the screenshot below: Note that filter option is sometimes greyed out and unselectable. To crop a video, you will have to use one of the filters available in Avidemux. To start cropping a video, first press to open a new file.

Linux packages for Avidemux can be downloaded from here. AvidemuxĪvidemux is a free and open source video editor that can be used for simple cutting, filtering and encoding. You have now successfully cropped the video using VLC. Select a destination file for the cropped video, then click on “Start”:

Select “Video cropping filter” checkbox and then click on “Save”: On the next window, click on “Video codec” tab followed by a click on “Filters” tab. Then click on the dropdown arrow next to “Convert / Save” button, followed by a Click on “Convert” button:Ĭlick on the wrench icon to edit the selected profile: On the next screen, click on “Add…” button to add the video you want to be cropped. We have only customized the crop filter so far, now to actually crop a video, click on “Convert / Save…” option in the “Media” dropdown menu: Click on “Save” when you are done entering values. On the right side you will see input boxes to enter dimensions. In the search bar, type “croppadd”, then click on “Croppadd” as shown in the screenshot below. To crop a video in VLC, first go to “Tools” and then click on “Preferences”, as shown in the screenshot below:

Ffmpeg trim video without re encoding