Trimmer

A video trimming utility for elementary OS.

Usage

Quickly trim videos using start and end timestamps. Trimmer doesn't re-encode any videos so the process should be very fast.

Screenshots

Installation

On Elementary OS

On elementary OS you can get Trimmer from the appcenter

On other distros

Trimmer is developed targetting and tested on elementary OS. However you can always install Trimmer as flatpak on any distro from the elementary flatpak repository.

flatpak install https://flatpak.elementary.io/repo/appstream/com.github.phoneybadger.trimmer.flatpakref

If you're using GNOME you can also consider using Ivan Molodetskikh's Video Trimmer which this app was directly inspired by.

Building and running

Download or clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/phoneybadger/trimmer.git
cd trimmer

Build with Flatpak

Run flatpak-builder to build and install as a flatpak for the current user

flatpak-builder build com.github.phoneybadger.trimmer.yml --user --install --force-clean

the program should now be installed and can be launched using

flatpak run com.github.phoneybadger.trimmer

Without Flatpak

You'll need the following dependencies

• valac
• meson
• libgtk-3-dev
• libgranite-dev
• libclutter-gst-3.0-dev
• libclutter-gtk-1.0-dev
• libgstreamer1.0-dev
• ffmpeg

Run meson to configure the build environment and then use ninja to build

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

To install use ninja install, then execute with com.github.phoneybadger.trimmer

sudo ninja install
com.github.phoneybadger.trimmer

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome. You can raise an issue if you come across a bug and feel free to send in pull requests with features or bug fixes.

Code

The code generally follows the elementary code style guidelines. The project uses vala-lint to check for code style issues.

Translations

Generate .pot translation template file using po/LINGUAS and po/POTFILES.

ninja com.github.phoneybadger.trimmer-pot

then use the template file to generate/update .po files for each of the languages listed in LINGUAS

ninja com.github.phoneybadger.trimmer-update-po

Credits

• Directly inspired by Ivan Molodetskikh's Video Trimmer for GNOME.
• Video used in screenshots is Blender open movie Sprite fright.
• Resizer and Videos for code reference.
• Article on Vala reactive programming by Igor Montagner.