ffmpeg is such a remarkable piece of software. It's a command-line tool that is 100% dependent on you digging around in the wiki (and likely several stackoverflow posts) to get what you want out of it—and despite this, it feels like it's far more willing to meet you halfway and fill in the blanks of your request than any GUI video editing tool I've ever touched
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in reply to @trashbang's post:
not to mention its an absolute dream for headless automation. I can't count the number of times I've deployed it as part of some back-end process, or part of a video pipeline and its been so solid (unlike my scripts (o_o; ) )
I used it for a few things last week and it was great except two things that just made me so mad: why doesn’t it try harder to copy across color space settings, and why are some of the encoding parameters opaque integers that are only documented in the standard of the video codec. but it all worked out in the end
I've gotten to the point where I can write most commands without any reference. I mostly only need reference when messing with filters.
I have grown too powerful.