Split Video via API

Split long videos into smaller segments by time duration, file size, or custom intervals. Perfect for creating social media clips, chapters, or manageable upload chunks.

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Use the API

curl -X POST https://renderio.dev/v1/commands \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ffsk_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "ffmpeg_command": "-i {in_video} -f segment -segment_time 60 -c copy -reset_timestamps 1 {out_video}",
  "input_files": {
    "in_video": "https://example.com/input.mp4"
  },
  "output_files": {
    "out_video": "segment_%03d.mp4"
  }
}'

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Common Variations

30-second segments

-i input.mp4 -f segment -segment_time 30 -c copy -reset_timestamps 1 segment_%03d.mp4

Split at keyframes only

-i input.mp4 -f segment -segment_time 60 -c copy -break_non_keyframes 0 segment_%03d.mp4

Split into 3 equal parts

-i input.mp4 -t 33% -c copy part1.mp4 && -i input.mp4 -ss 33% -t 33% -c copy part2.mp4 && -i input.mp4 -ss 66% -c copy part3.mp4

Related Operations

Trim Video via API | RenderIO Merge Videos via API | RenderIO Convert MP4 to HLS via API | RenderIO Compress Video via API | RenderIO

Need to process at scale?

Automate this with the RenderIO FFmpeg API. Process thousands of files programmatically or through no-code video automation.

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