VibEdit - simple video cutter
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Cut clips out of one or more videos and join them together (or save each
clip as its own file). Uses ffmpeg, which is included in this folder.
Start
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Open a terminal in this folder and run ./vibedit. To start it from your
applications menu instead, run ./install.sh once (./install.sh --uninstall
removes the entry again).
The editor opens in its own window when Google Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft
Edge or Brave is installed, otherwise in a tab of your default browser.
Closing the editor window quits VibEdit after a few seconds; in a terminal,
Ctrl+C quits it right away.
To add videos VibEdit uses the zenity (GNOME and most desktops) or kdialog
(KDE) file dialog. If neither is installed it shows its own file browser;
install one for the usual dialog, for example: sudo apt install zenity
How to cut
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1. Click "Add videos" and pick one or more source files.
2. Move the playhead (click the timeline, arrow keys = one frame,
Shift+arrows = one second, Up/Down = keyframes).
3. Press I to set the In point and O to set the Out point, then Enter to
add the clip. Repeat for every part you want - from any source video.
Or click "+ Whole" on a source and press S to split it at the playhead,
then delete the pieces you don't want.
4. Drag the clips into order, click Export and choose:
- Lossless: copies the original video/audio. No quality loss and very
fast, but cuts can only start on keyframes (shown as ticks under the
timeline), so a clip may start a little early.
- Re-encode: frame-exact cuts; choose codec (H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 and
NVIDIA/Intel/AMD GPU encoders when your drivers support them),
quality, resolution, frame rate and audio.
- Animated GIF: a looping animation without sound, with frame-exact
cuts; choose resolution, frame rate, dithering and whether it loops.
Keep GIFs short - the files get large quickly.
- Join everything into one file, or save each clip separately.
Press the ? button in the editor for all keyboard shortcuts. Your project is
saved automatically (in ~/.config/vibedit) and restored the next time you
start VibEdit.
Options
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./vibedit -default-browser open in the default browser instead
./vibedit -no-browser just print the address
./vibedit -ffmpeg /path/to/ffmpeg -ffprobe /path/to/ffprobe
If you delete ffmpeg and ffprobe from this folder, VibEdit uses the ones
installed on your system instead.
ffmpeg is licensed separately, see ffmpeg-LICENSE.txt.
