Create, edit, modify and convert multimedia files using FFmpeg, the most versatile open source audio and video processing tool available for Linux, Mac and Windows users.
Create, edit, modify and convert multimedia files using FFmpeg, the most versatile open source audio and video processing tool available for Linux, Mac and Windows users. After reading this book, you will be able to work with video and audio files, images, text, animations, fonts, subtitles and metadata like a pro.
It begins with a simple introduction to FFmpeg executables — ffmpeg, ffprobe and ffplay, and explains how you can use them to process multimedia containers, streams, audio channels, maps and metadata. It then describes how you can easily edit, enhance and convert audio, video, image and text files. There are dedicated chapters for filters, audio, subtitles and metadata, as well as FFmpeg tips and tricks. Sample lists of FFmpeg filters, encoders, decoders, formats and codecs are also available as appendices.
Quick Start Guide to FFmpeg is for anyone who needs to edit or process multimedia files including studio professionals, broadcast personnel, content creators, podcasters, librarians, archivists and webmasters. It will be indispensable for those wanting to process a variety of multimedia files from the command line and inside shell scripts or custom-built software.
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Looking for a quick introductory guide to get you up and running with FFmpeg fast? Look no further. This is your source for valuable hints and tricks and your go-to helper to troubleshoot and solve basic problems you may run into with this free and open source software program for Linux, Mac and Windows. You'll learn to use the free command line video editor and a wide range of commands like cut and copy, tag, convert and crop, to more complex commands like combine, compose, blur, side-by-side split, PIP inset, fade in and out as well as adding additional filters, subtitles, sound, images, animations and metadata. When done reading Quick Start Guide to FFmpeg you be able to achieve all sorts of exciting tasks. Here's just a sampling: Convert from one format to another: video-to-video, video-to-audio, video-to-image, image-to-video, audio-to-video. Edit video: cut videos with and without re-encoding, appending (concatenating) videos, mix audio and video. Go bonkers with filters: rotate, flip, crop, side-by-side, inset, remove logo, blur, smoothen/sharpen, draw box, draw text, apply transitions, speed up, and slow down. Jump in with audio: convert, change volume, mix channels, detect silence, and display waveforms. Get subversive with subtitles: place them anywhere on the screen, use custom fonts and colors, specify languages, and burn them into the video. Become a metadata maniac: add MP3 tags including album art, set global and stream-specific metadata, and remove metadata
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