So recently I decided to try adding some background music to my videos so it isn't just me blathering the whole time. Naturally, I turn to my weapon of choice in these cases, FFmpeg. The music I use for this is from a project called StreamBeats, you should check it

I had someone email me asking how to solve the following problem: I would like to take video A, video B, and replace the audio in video A with the audio from video BThe approach they were trying was as follows: Extract only the video from video AExtract only the

Something I had to figure how to do recently to make a Fiverr gig promo video was stack videos together. This is when you see two or more videos playing side by side at the same time. It is often used to compare before and after results, such as what

This one was a doozy to figure out but I finally managed to overlay a little subscribe animation over my main videos. Normally I would explain it but it's pretty long-winded so if you want the full explanation, please watch the video. The short answer is, it's using a complex

I have found it very useful to concatenate multiple video files together after working on them separately. It turns out, that is rather simple to do with FFmpeg. How do we do this? There are three methods I have found thus far: Using the concat demuxer approach This method is

The MagicThis is probably one of the more helpful tricks I've shown off so far. Here is a command using FFmpeg that will, get this, remove all frozen frames from a video, leaving only the frames showing work being done. ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf mpdecimate,setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/

It turns out removing the audio from a video is very easy with FFmpeg! To remove the audio from a video: ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -c:v copy -an out.mp4 The -an option will completely remove the audio from a video, and since we're just copying the video codec

I figured out that you don't need to use a full-fledged video editor to apply some basic transition effects to video and audio. Using FFmpeg, you can apply basic fade in and fade out to video using the fade filter. For audio, the afade filter can be used to achieve

In this video I go a little more in-depth about how to cut sections of video and audio out into separate files using just ffmpeg Did you find this information useful? If so, consider heading over to my donation page and drop me some support. Want to ask a question

So I've been messing around with FFmpeg a lot to see how much video editing I can do without using an actual GUI video editor, so far it turns out that the answer is quite a bit. I go over three main common tasks I've needed to do recently with