Making a slow-motion clip from a video can be very useful to show off what is happening in a certain scene. The example below will make a slow-motion clip from a video file. This would be another very useful FFmpeg tip. > ffmpeg -i qS_lu5dKo9A2qoNW.mp4 -c:v libvpx -b:v 3200k -filter:v "setpts=2.0*PTS" -ss 00:00:03 -t 6.9 … Read more
This is a first look at the 4 hour long Snyder Cut epic of Justice League. This is an epic retelling of the story of the Justice League battling the forces of evil to save the world. This is a more adult retelling of the story, and therefore it has adult language. But it will … Read more
Extracting an excerpt from a video is very useful, this is how to do it. The command below extracts an excerpt from a video at 00:00:05 to 00:00:15. This is scaled to 640×360 pixels and is good quality. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos] └──╼ ╼ $ ffmpeg -v 1 -i agropromfun.mp4 -ss 00:00:05 -to 00:00:15 -c:v libvpx -crf 4 … Read more
Converting a short video clip to a small webm file is very easy. Firstly, do this as part 1 of the two pass encoding process. ffmpeg -i BarakaClip.mkv -c:v libvpx -deadline good -cpu-used 5 -b:v 1000K -qmax 50 -an -f null -ffmpeg -i BarakaClip.mkv -c:v libvpx -deadline good -cpu-used 5 -b:v 1000K -qmax 50 -an … Read more
Cropping a section of a video and saving it without reencoding is very simple, the example below shows how to use ffmpeg to cut out a section of video and then save it to a separate file. This example will cut out a clip starting 12 minutes into the video and 13 minutes long. 4.4 … Read more
How to properly trim out a section of video with ffmpeg This ffmpeg command will trim out a section of video from a long video file. This is how a clip is snipped out of a movie file easily. ffmpeg -i "baraka.mkv" -ss 00:14:59.691 -to 00:17:24.044 -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -crf 0 -c:a copy "BarakaClip.mkv"ffmpeg … Read more