Ever wanted to create a stop motion movie? If you are on a Mac you can do so for free from the command line. We will use imagemagick and ffmpeg available on Mac with homebrew. we need to convert our images: create the movie: [read more]

NOTE: This solution “burns the subtitles” into the video, so that every viewer of the video will be forced to see them. Use the libass library (make sure your ffmpeg install has the library in the configuration –enable-libass). First convert the subtitles to .ass format: ffmpeg -i subtitles.srt subtitles.assThen add them using a video filter: [read more]

Ffmpeg is a great quick way to convert media files. I often use it to convert audio files to the desired format. the simplest way to use it is like the following example; In the next example I add a codec to convert to mp3; [read more]

This command finds all Flac files and then converts them to mp3 with FFMPEG keeping meta data. find . -name “*.flac” -exec ffmpeg -i {} -ab 320k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 {}.mp3 \; [read more]