FFmpeg is one of the most powerful tools for video transcoding and manipulation, but it's fairly complex and confusing to use. That's why I decided to create this cheat sheet which shows some of the most often used commands.
Let's start with some basics:
ffmpeg
calls the FFmpeg application in the command line window, could also be the full path to the FFmpeg binary or .exe file-i
is follwed by the path to the input video-c:v
sets the video codec you want to use