It has been said at every single post about ffmpeg (and it's true!) so I would also add my obligatory comment:
DO use ChatGPT to help you to write ffmpeg commands, but at least has some basic understanding of how ffmpeg works -- especially the fact that it works like a pipeline so the order of the options absolutely matters.
And ChatGPT often throw lots of unnecessary options (sometimes even do harm), so do actually investigate what each switch is supposed to do (ChatGPT can help with that too) if you're going to use the generated command for something semi-serious.
If possible, try to keep the switches as few as possible and avoid exotic flags. But do pay attention to pixel format and colorspace options to make your video as compatible as possible. It's very easy to mess things up for doing even seemingly simple tasks (like converting static images to slideshow etc.)
I have the experience of reading an ffmpeg one-liner (that really took more like five lines with wraparound) and trying to understand it. Half the options seemed unnecessary, but every single one of them would break the script when removed.
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It has been said at every single post about ffmpeg (and it's true!) so I would also add my obligatory comment:
DO use ChatGPT to help you to write ffmpeg commands, but at least has some basic understanding of how ffmpeg works -- especially the fact that it works like a pipeline so the order of the options absolutely matters.
And ChatGPT often throw lots of unnecessary options (sometimes even do harm), so do actually investigate what each switch is supposed to do (ChatGPT can help with that too) if you're going to use the generated command for something semi-serious.
If possible, try to keep the switches as few as possible and avoid exotic flags. But do pay attention to pixel format and colorspace options to make your video as compatible as possible. It's very easy to mess things up for doing even seemingly simple tasks (like converting static images to slideshow etc.)
I have the experience of reading an ffmpeg one-liner (that really took more like five lines with wraparound) and trying to understand it. Half the options seemed unnecessary, but every single one of them would break the script when removed.
I think this also is a great case to not use the short names of parameters. It allows for much easier searching of parameters.