FFMPEG

Install

FFMPEG

FFMPEG is a handy Swiss knife video tool for all sorts of video – and audio –operations. FFMPEG is a command line tool, meaning you have to operate it from the command line (Terminal on mac).

To install it, first install 'brew'. Brew is a package manager that allows you to install command line software with a single command: paste the following on your command line:

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

During the installations a vast amounts of text will flow on your screen. Don't worry that is OK. Just sit and wait until it is finished.

Once done you type:

$ brew install ffmpeg

Agian loads of text flow by. Sit back and wait until finished.

FFMPEG is ready to use. Type ffmpeg on the command line to see if it works.

$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 3.4.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.4.2 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --disable-jack --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-opencl --enable-videotoolbox --disable-lzma
  libavutil      55. 78.100 / 55. 78.100
  libavcodec     57.107.100 / 57.107.100
  libavformat    57. 83.100 / 57. 83.100
  libavdevice    57. 10.100 / 57. 10.100
  libavfilter     6.107.100 /  6.107.100
  libavresample   3.  7.  0 /  3.  7.  0
  libswscale      4.  8.100 /  4.  8.100
  libswresample   2.  9.100 /  2.  9.100
  libpostproc    54.  7.100 / 54.  7.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
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Now you've done that, you can use a bunch of commands which I will add over time as I run into them.