In fact, the tutorial forms much of this book. The book has a full tutorial and is not just a collection of hacks. In the spirit of open source, I have made its ebook version free. It is now a 152-page full-colour paperback on Amazon - FFMPEG Quick Hacks. When I went in depth about FFmpeg, I decided to write a book instead. Last year, in the midst of the lockdown, I decided to write a follow-up for the article - sort of 'More FFmpeg tips and tricks'. I had even written a FFmpeg tips-and-tricks article in a magazine without knowing any better.

The only filter I used was the volume filter, which I used (blindly) to amplify low-volume audio files. Backgroundįor several years, I did not bother with FFmpeg filters. The syntax for FFmpeg filters is obscure and the documentation is a bit cryptic. It is also possible to rotate videos with FFmpeg: ffmpeg -i example-video.mp4 -vf 'transpose=2 ' output-rotate.A lot more FFmpeg functionality is in the form of filters. The concat parameter here combines your files. Then, run the following command: ffmpeg -f concat -i my-video-list. Enter the list of videos you want to merge into a. Imagine you have multiple clips encoded with the same codec. scale: You can specify the scale sizes you want in your output with this parameterįFmpeg also allows you to combine multiple videos.

-vf: This parameter works the same as the -filter:v argument seen above.The following command will resize the video to a size you want: ffmpeg -i example-video.mp4 -vf scale=1920:1080 output-scale.mp4 Sometimes you also need to change the scale of the video. Editing videos doesn't end with just trimming and cutting.

Ffmpeg crop and rotate