Software to Extract Scenes from Video Files?

[tbird2340]

What is the best software to extract scenes from video files without having to re-encode the entire video etc?

Mostly mkv, mp4, etc.. The standard file types..

I know it can be done in Windows Movie Maker, VideoPad, etc but didn't know if there was one that is a lot faster where I can just say "export from minute 8 - 18" and it just spit out a file quickly..

Thanks

 

[TheGardener]

I use VLC media player as my default program to play movies and to stream videos. It has a record feature. Tried recording scenes a handful of times. Seems to work fine.

I won't make claims about VLC being the best, as I haven't tried others. But it is freeware and open source, so there is no cost to trying it out.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[tbird2340]

Thanks for the reply..

Sounds like I would need to sit through the span of video that I want to extract? As it's just "recording" ?

 

[TheELF]

You can do this with avidemux set point A for beginning and point B for ending and it will save without recoding,only downside is that you will have to cut upon I-frames(the forward and back arrows always skip to I-frames) otherwise you will end up with a broken file that won't playback correctly.

 

[OlyAR15]

I use video redo, which I used primarily to cut out commercials from recorded tv shows.

 

[MTDEW]

Try Freemake Video Converter.
I Use it cut out what you DON'T want in the video and save what you do want.

It kinda works backwards of what you originally asked....but accomplishes the same thing.
But that is why its fast and simple.
You edit and select what you want REMOVED, then save whats left after you've cutout what you don't want....no need to re-encode whats left after the cutting....you just save what is left!

I use it for editing my Defender Security cam footage all the time to remove everything but the relevant video parts I need.

No lengthy re-encode unless you switch/convert video formats. (obviously)

 

[tbird2340]

Thanks for all the replies.. I'll give that VideoReDo a shot..