FFmpeg is the Swiss Army knife of the video editing and processing world. You can practically do anything with it and in this category, we cover popular and useful uses of FFmpeg.
In my video processing toolkit, ffprobe has a very prominent place! The FFmpeg library, ffprobe, can rightly be called the Swiss Army Knife of video information extraction or video inspection. As the FFmpeg documentation succinctly puts it, ffprobe gathers information from multimedia streams and prints it in human- and machine-readable fashion. With ffprobe, you can […]
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In this article, we will learn how to use FFmpeg to convert videos to Apple ProRes 422 and 444 formats. To try this tutorial on a Windows machine, you can download an FFmpeg static build from OTTVerse’s FFmpeg build page. Instructions for FFmpeg installation for macOS and Linux can be found in our FFmpeg installation
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In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a video from images using FFmpeg. FFmpeg can do this easily if the input is fed as a sequence of images that have been named in an appropriate and easy-to-parse manner. Creating a video from images is very useful, especially when you indulge in stop-motion photography
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This short tutorial will demonstrate how to extract the last N seconds from a video (like extracting the last 10 seconds of a video using FFmpeg). To do this we will make use of the -sseof option by FFmpeg. This is useful in video editing, where you might want to remove the credits section or
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In this tutorial, we shall learn about HLS packaging using FFmeg. The great part about using FFmpeg is that you can ingest a video, resize it, transcode, package, and stream it without leaving the command line! We shall first take a look at all the steps to create a HLS packaging for VOD and then
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Blurring is an important operation in video post-production. Instead of using costly software, you can use FFmpeg’s boxblur to blur your videos and even choose which area of the frames to blur. In this post, let’s learn how to use FFmpeg’s boxblur function to blur a section of a video or a part of a
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Whenever two videos are joined together, a transition is usually added at the transition point – typically, a crossfade, dissolve, or a wipe-effect. You don’t need any expensive software to do this – all you need is FFmpeg and an understanding of the xfade filter to add an eye-catching crossfade, dissolve, or any other transition
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In this tutorial, we learn how to crop a video using FFmpeg‘s crop filter. We will also learn how to use variables for cropping the video. How to Crop a Video using Pixel Coordinates If you know the size and the coordinates of the section of the video that you want to crop, then
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In this FFmpeg tutorial, we learn to change the resolution of a video (or resize/scale a video) using FFmpeg’s commandline tool. Changing a video’s resolution (also known as resizing or scaling) is a very common operation in video editing, processing, and compression. This is particularly true for ABR video streaming where a single video is
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It’s time for the holidays and what better way to share love and memories with your family than to create an old-school, vintage movie? You don’t need a time-machine to go back to the 50s or 60s to rmake your homevideo look like a vintage movie. All you need is FFmpeg, some imagination, and perhaps
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