Except for you guys, since I'm telling you now. Situation: I needed to create a video file from hundreds of video frames, and two audio files (a stereo file for narration, and a 5.1 file for music and FX). A bit of internet searching later, and I had the flags I needed for ffmpeg. It's now happily chugging away, generating the video file I need, and I didn't have to touch one piece of crappy Adobe software. Unless someone asks how I did it, I won't have the opportunity to flaunt how great Linux is - outside of this post, of course.

Edit: Aaaaaand I have to re-do everything, because I put the framerate flag in the wrong part of the command... fuck ffmpeg.

Comments

voxpoplar wrote on February 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM

the true ffmpeg experience

twovests wrote on February 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM

While that's the big appeal with Linux, you can do this natively in MacOS's terminal, and with only a little bit of extra pain in Powershell on Windows :^)

That said, "terminal works good" is one of the big Linux > MacOS >>> Windows thing. Now you can write down that ffmpeg command you did and save it in a grimoire for future use! :D