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title: "💭 FFmpeg video crop"
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date: 2026-02-25
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This was the inspiration for the next update in dropper that became a full clip editor.  The one that I've long wanted, but forgotten about.  It's going to include this cropper, resize, image extractor, and trimmer.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>