Hello fellow video editors,
I'm new here.
I found some similar threads but not quite exactly what I am looking for.
Is there a software to which I can simply feed an .mp4 or .mkv file and tell it to split into 10, or 20, or 30, or whatever pieces of equal duration?
Thank you so much!
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mp4box has a -split time_sec option for mp4
mkvmerge has a --split duration for mkv
The duration will not necessarily be exact, because they split on keyframes (it depends where the source video has keyframes located)
The mkvtoolnix GUI has a split mode box, and drop down options ("after output duration"), but I don't know if any of the GUI's for mp4box have splits built in, so you'd have to use commandline -
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@Poisondeathray, your software worked wonderfully, thanks.
Now, all the pieces of the master video, when I split it, have equal duration. Is there another solution to make them slightly different, like random duration? Like, I specify the number of pieces I want to split a video into, and then the duration of each piece is random?
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Not sure;
But if you split by size, chances are the durations will be slightly different if the keyframe placement was adaptive, and the video used variable bitrate . If source video is CBR, fixed GOP length, it won't make a difference
-split-size (in kb for mp4box)
mkvmerge list the options for splitting in the documentation (and the GUI has tool tips when you hover) -
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