Basics of Installing and Using FFMPEG on MacOS & Windows for Cinematographers

FFMPEG is a powerful open source (and free) video and audio processing tool that can be run on virtually every platform in existence. In fact, I find FFMPEG an invaluable tool for just about every video project I work on.

In this video, we'll look at installing FFMPEG on Mac OS and Windows and the basic command structure.

This video was separated from my FFMPEG for time lapse photography tutorial that you can find here:

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Chapters
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00:00 Intro
01:12 Installing FFMPEG
01:30 Installing FFMPEG on Mac OS
06:27 Using FFMPEG
09:16 CODEC Support