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FFMPEG Command to Cut & Trim Audio File Using Start & End Time in Terminal
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Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -ss 00:00:30 -to 00:01:00 -c copy output.mp3
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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cut an audio file using starting time
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and the ending time so if you want to
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cut or trim specific portion of your
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audio file inside f ofmppg so there is a
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command that I will show you in this
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video where you can actually cut a
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specific portion from an audio file
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using a starting time and the ending
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time so this is we have a simple input
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MP3 file right here if I play hello guys
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then we file name this is a welcome to
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the website and download so you can see
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we have this file right here and
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uh now what I will do I will simply cut
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a specific portion from this video so
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just open the command line and there is
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a command right here i have given this
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command in the description of this video
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so let me just explain you this command
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so first of all what we do we simply say
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ffmppg- i and then we provide the input
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file name which is input.mpp3 in my case
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so we providing the input file name
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after that we specify the starting
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duration starting time like this so this
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is the time format so from 38th second
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and then
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two
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the ending time here we
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provide so you can see we are cutting
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the this time period trimming this
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portion so you can calculate from 30 to
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1 minute so this comes out to be 30
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seconds so we are actually cropping out
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or trimming out or cutting this portion
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of the audio file and we are not
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re-encoding the video so we are copying
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the encoding settings so this will not
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take a lot of time and this is our
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output file so if I execute this command
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here the command executes successfully
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and it actually creates this output.mpp3
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file and exactly the length of this file
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as you can see it is 30 second so we
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have successfully mp4
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so in this easy way you can crop uh a
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specific portion from the audio file so
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if you want to cut if you want to get
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only a specific portion you can just
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execute this command it's very easy
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command here you will see you provide an
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input file then you provide the starting
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time and the ending time we simply cut
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this portion and then we copy the
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encoding settings and this is your
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output file so this is a very easy ffmpg
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command you can use to cut or trim video
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using starting time and ending time so
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thank you very much for watching this
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video and also check out my website
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freemediatools.com which contains
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thousands of tools regarding audio video
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and image
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