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 and so on.
 
 # A Quick Example
-Suppose you'd like to split one video that is five minutes long into five
-videos, each one minute long.
+Suppose you have one video that is five minutes long,
+and you want to split it into five videos, each one minute long.
 
 With ffmpeg and bash, you might do something like this:
 ```shell script