Used AI to make Avidemux keep subtitles while cutting!

[roadhazard]

I cross posted this on Avidemux's forum and wanted to post it here as well.

As we all know, Avidemux is the best tool ever for easy and laser sharp cutting of MKV files. It's dead simple to use and does an excellent job of cutting. For years and years and years, I've been looking for a program that was as good as Avidemux with cutting -BUT- was able to retain/re-index SRT embedded subtitles.

I tried lots of MKV editors and Clever FFmpeg-GUI was the closet to what I needed but it's GUI (for whatever reason) seems backwards to me, it made my head hurt using it. I eventually gave up on my quest and forgot all about this journey ... until yesterday.

I had my brother use Claude to generate some helper files that would let you save your project file after cutting a video and take that .py file, the original MKV and the saved/cut MKV and would do some AI magic and presto chango, spit out a finished MKV, WITH SUBS, that are perfectly in sync with all the cuts you did!

I don't know if I'm allowed to post it here but if I can, I'll gladly share it with the world. To me, this makes Avidemux 1000x better.

Loving AI for stuff like this! My brother, nor myself, are developers but I'm really good at writing prompts.

[Secoast]

From your discription, I cannot see a reason why you shouldn't post it here. Would be interesting to see the steps involved.