SREVIEW-CUT(1p)

💖 SREVIEW-CUT ✂️ (that's section 1p of the manual, bestie)

okay so. this is a Perl manpage, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection. sit down, hydrate, let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

sreview-cut — cut a talk out of the raw recording data 🎬

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sreview-cut TALKID

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so sreview-cut is literally the main character here, and it does ALL of this, in order, no skips:

• Look up the talk with id TALKID in the database 📚
• From the raw files, extract the amount of video that, according to the schedule, is part of the talk of which the event was given as the main video — with adjustments as specified by the reviewer, if any, applied 🔍
• Extract the 20 minutes just before and the 20 minutes just after the main video into the pre and post videos ⏪⏩
• Apply A/V sync correction values if any exist 🎯
• Perform audio normalization, if enabled in the configuration 🔊
• Extract sample videos from all three channels into preview audio streams, if enabled in the configuration 🎧
• Move the talk to the next state 🚀

and here's the part that's genuinely iconic of it: sreview-cut will only re-encode those parts of the original video that have to be re-encoded in order to make sure that the video that is finally produced starts with a key frame. and it will re-encode the original audio of the main video at most once, after audio normalization if that was enabled in the configuration. efficient queen behavior fr fr 👑

any re-transcodes should be performed by sreview-transcode (for production) and/or sreview-previews (for review previews) — that's not this girl's job, she's just saying 🫶

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🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

sreview-cut considers the following configuration values, bestie, listen up:

• workdir — the location where any temporary files are stored. defaults to /tmp, but can be overridden if necessary. these temporary files are removed when sreview-cut finishes. lowkey a clean girl, she tidies up 🧹
• dbistring — the DBI string used to connect to the database 🗄️
• audio_multiplex_mode — the way in which the primary and backup audio channels are encoded in the video. can be one of:
  • stereo — the primary audio is in the left channel, and the backup audio is in the right channel 🎶
  • stream — the primary audio is in the first audio stream (a mono stream), and the backup audio is in the second audio stream (also a mono stream) 🌊
  • none — there is only one audio stream, and if it is a stereo channel then the right channel is not the backup audio 🚫
• inputglob — the location of the (raw) input files. these files should have been put into the database by way of sreview-detect 📂
• pubdir — the location of the intermediate files that are published to reviewers 📤
• accessmethods — the SReview::Files implementation used to access the input files and/or the intermediate files 🔑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

sreview-transcode, sreview-previews, sreview-skip, sreview-config

go read those too, iykyk 💅

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and that's the whole page, babe ✨ this one came from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-15. user contributed perl documentation, so you know it's giving community-coded. stay hydrated, transcode responsibly, mwah 🫶💖