[FFmpeg-user] Cut out middle of a video?

[Lou]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:18:34 -0700
Jim Worrall <coniophora at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Lou <lou at lrcd.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:58:23 -0500
> > "." <peace at aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I have an mp4 that's 2 minutes long.
> > >
> > >
> > > - From the video I want to remove from 1 minute 10 seconds  until
> > > 1 minute 50 seconds.
> > >
> > > How do I do it?
> >
> > ffmpeg -i input -ss 00:01:10.00 -t 00:00:40.00 -c copy output
> > or
> > ffmpeg -i input -ss 70 -t 40 -c copy output
> >
> >
> Wouldn't that KEEP only the middle part, rather than removing it?

Yes.

> It sounds like he wants to discard the middle and keep the rest.

I was assuming the middle section was what he wanted.