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FFmpeg

The Swiss-army knife of video and audio — trim, merge, compress and convert by command.

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Overview

FFmpeg is the tool behind virtually every video platform, and agents are fluent in it: trimming and merging clips, compression with calculated quality, format conversion, audio extraction, thumbnail generation and subtitle burning — all automatable commands.

For creators and editors it's a superpower: instead of a heavy app per simple operation, describe what you want and the agent writes the right command — and batches a whole folder on request.

Who Is This For?

  • Compressing videos for the web at calculated quality
  • Trimming and merging clips in bulk
  • Extracting audio and generating thumbnails
  • Burning SRT subtitles into video

Installation

Setup for Claude Code
brew install ffmpeg  # or apt install ffmpeg

Configuration

# trim + compress + convert in one pass:
ffmpeg -i in.mov -ss 0:10 -t 30 -vcodec libx264 -crf 28 out.mp4

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