Get you up and running with FFmpeg fast and maximize containers, streams, channels, filters, and metadata along the way. This book aims to be a quick introductory guide to FFmpeg, a free and open source command line program for Linux, Mac and Windows.
You'll learn to use the free video editor and a wide range of basic commands like cut and copy, tag, convert and crop, to more complex commands like combine, compose, blur, side-by-side split, PIP inset, and fade in and out. Adding filters, subtitles, sound, images, animations and metadata are also covered.
This book will provide you with valuable hints and tricks as well as help you to troubleshoot and solve basic problems you may run into.
What You'll Learn
- Convert from one format to another: video-to-video, video-to-audio, etc.
- Cut videos with and without re-encoding, appending (concatenating)
- Rotate, flip, crop, blur, smoothen/sharpen, and apply transitions with filters
- Convert audio, change volume, mix channels, detect silence, and display waveforms
- Work with subtitles anywhere on the screen, using custom fonts and colors
- Add MP3 tags, including album art, and set global and stream-specific metadata
Who This Book Is For
Content creators and bloggers from professional studio employees to Youtubers and hobbyists who need to process their own multimedia content; multimedia archivists and librarians; regular Linux desktop users
