thanks for the question, reth!
that has to definitely be learning how to use the ffmpeg command-line interface. i use it so much, and knowing how it works is a skill i don’t think i could live without nowadays.
opening a terminal and throwing down some commands to automate a task with multimedia has never been easier.
want to connect a video with audio? ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.mp3 -shortest output.mp4 and boom, you have a video with the audio track.
i also have command snippets saved for more complicated things, like converting FLACs into MP3s with metadata preservation, converting videos into compressed GIFs1, image overlaying, changing the speed of videos, various compression options, splitting a video into frames and compiling frames into a video. stuff like that.
it’s a skill i can recommend 100% to any power user, because it makes life SO MUCH SIMPLER. i haven’t had to open a video editor in so long, seriously, i do lightweight video editing just in ffmpeg now. and so should you.
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