#video

Reduce a video's file size with FFmpeg's constant-quality CRF mode so it fits email and chat upload limits.

Concatenate several clips that share the same codec and resolution into a single video file from the command line.

Burn a PNG logo into the corner of any video with one ffmpeg command.

Turn a QuickTime .mov clip into a universally playable .mp4 file with one FFmpeg command.

Re-encode a video with libx265 at CRF 28 to cut file size dramatically while keeping quality (requires brew-installed ffmpeg).

Build a small, good-looking GIF on macOS with ffmpeg's palettegen/paletteuse filter chain (ffmpeg is not preinstalled).

Cut a portion of a video by timestamps in seconds, using stream copy so quality is untouched.

Cut a section out of a video in seconds with no quality loss by stream-copying with ffmpeg.

Pull the soundtrack out of a video file instantly and losslessly using ffmpeg's -vn stream-copy trick.

ffprobe, the forgotten half of the ffmpeg toolset, prints codecs, resolution, and duration in a script-friendly format.

Concatenate several video clips end-to-end into a single file using FFmpeg's concat demuxer, with no re-encoding and no quality loss when formats match.

Boost or lower a video's audio track with the FFmpeg volume filter while the video stream is copied untouched.