A script to perform a random cut on a video By Antonio Roberts | www.hellocatfood.com Usage: ./movie_cut.sh /path/to/avi/file Clip-duration-in-seconds e.g. ./movie_cut.sh 4.01 Works best on avi files requires avconv

movie_cut.sh

#!/bin/bash
#A script to perform a random cut on a video
#By Antonio Roberts | www.hellocatfood.com
#Usage: ./movie_cut.sh /path/to/avi/file Clip-duration-in-seconds
#e.g. ./movie_cut.sh 4.01
#Works best on avi files

bitRate=$(avprobe $1 2>&1 | grep bitrate | cut -d ':' -f 6 | sed s/"kb\/s"//)

length=`expr $(avprobe -loglevel error -show_streams $1 | grep duration | cut -f 2 -d = | head -1 | cut -d "." -f 1) \* 100`

#start position
startPos=$(echo "scale=2;$(shuf -i 1-$length -n 1) / 100" | bc)

#duration
duration=$2

avconv -ss $startPos -i $1 -t $duration -b "$bitRate"k "$1"_cut.avi