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FFMPEG Command to Split Video into Multiple Parts & Segments in Terminal
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Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c copy -map 0 -segment_time 30 -f segment part_%03d.mp4
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uh hello guys welcome to this video i'll
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in this video I'll show you how to split
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a long video into short parts into
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smaller segments inside ffmpg right in
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the terminal itself so now let's suppose
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I taking a very simple example here we
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have a simple video file present 1.mpp4
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if I try to open this
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file it's a 2 minute video show you how
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to fix this so now if you want to split
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this video into multiple parts shorter
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form of videos let's suppose 30 second
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video part so if you want to divide this
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video split this video uh inside ffmppg
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there is a simple command that you can
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execute come to the command line just
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write here ffmpg- i and then here you
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need to provide the input file name
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which is
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1.mpp4 the file is present in the same
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directory and then there is this command
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here dash
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copy dash
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map
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zero and then the segment time dash
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segment time so very simple syntax uh
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first of all we are providing the input
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file here by this - i flag fmpg-
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i1.mpp4 then this -
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ccopy-map0ero it is essentially we are
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not re-encoding the video the encoding
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is not done so this will be a little bit
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faster that's why we are writing here -
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ccopy map zero and then this is dash
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segment time so here we need to specify
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how much time each video takes so here
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we will provide 30 seconds so each video
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will be divided into 30 secondond parts
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and then we just need to say
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-ashf and
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then segment once again we need to write
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and then the output files so dynamically
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we will be creating it so we will say
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part and then we will put this dynamic
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variable underscore uh percentage sign
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03
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d.mpp4 so just pause the video just
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write this command right here this is
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your output file name so here we are
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embedding this dynamic
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variable percentage 03d is MP4 so if I
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execute this command just
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see these parts are automatically
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created this is your first part second
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part third part fourth part fifth part
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so depending upon the length of the
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video this command will automatically
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split your input video into multiple
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parts right here of 30 seconds so it
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will calculate how many parts are
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necessary depending upon the length of
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the video so if I now open this you will
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now see this will uh hello be the first
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30 seconds right here you will
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see this is again the next part if you
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haven't installed it if you if you
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haven't installed it then you should if
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you haven't
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installed and here all the executables
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are located i simply copy this loop so
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this splitting is very much needed if
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you have a very long video if you want
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to create some short little highlights
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this command is very useful and uh you
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can just uh control how much time each
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video takes inside this command i've
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given this command in the description of
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this video so right here dash segment
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time if you want each video to take 10
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seconds so just replace here 10 and then
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you will see automatically all these
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parts will be created this first second
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third fourth now the parts will be
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larger 12 videos are created right here
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each video taking 10 10 seconds so this
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is a really nice feature uh because
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splitting is very much needed if you
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have a very long video just need to
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divide it into multiple short parts so
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this is actually the way by which we can
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do this inside ffmppg write in the
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terminal itself so this was the command
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