FFmpeg

Often times, when you want to compare two videos side-by-side or you want to create an effect during post-processing, you might want to stack videos together. It can get expensive if you end up buying a tool to do this, but, guess what? FFmpeg offers a variety of tools to help stack videos together – […]

FFmpeg is a super-powerful tool to add, remove, extract, or replace the audio in your video files. If you have a copy of FFmpeg installed on your computer, then you have just the tool to help you add or remove an audio track from your movie. Let’s get to it and see how it’s done!

FFmpeg has a filter to rotate a video by specifying the direction. It takes a video as the input and a set of commands that you can use to instruct FFmpeg on how to rotate the video, and then FFmpeg will take care of the rest.

It’s very easy to reverse a video using FFmpeg because FFmpeg has a built-in reverse filter that can do this job for both audio and video! Let’s learn how in this tutorial and some gotcha’s that you should avoid. Reverse a Video using FFmpeg Here it is! A simple one-liner that takes your video and

There are several easy ways to take screenshots/thumbnails of movies using FFmpeg. But why do this in the first place? FFmpeg offers very simple techniques to extract screenshots or thumbnails at any position of the video (or rather, a way to dump frames at any point you choose). Let’s see how! Single Screenshot/Thumbnail Using -frames:v

You can use FFmpeg to concatenate mp4 files very easily! There are many ways to do this including variations such as (1) concatenating only the audio (2) concatenating only video

In this tutorial, we’ll see how you can cut/trim/extract part of a video file using FFmpeg in 3 different ways. There are fast ways to achieve this using less-accurate seeking and copying the video, and there is a frame-accurate technique that is slow but accurate with the option of re-encoding your video. Seek Using -ss

Learn FFmpeg’s drawtext filter to dynamically overlay text on video and display information such as timecode, frame resolution, watermarks, etc. Also, let’s learn how to configure the font, font-size, position, background-color, alignment, multiple lines, etc. using FFmpeg’s drawtext filter. Step 0: Ensure your FFmpeg Is Compiled with libfreetype In order to use drawtext, you needed to