ffmpeg -i rick_consciousness.bin -filter_complex "[0:v]reverse,fade=t=out:st=5:d=1[v];[0:a]areverse,afade=t=out:st=5:d=1[a]" -map "[v]" -map "[a]" morty_ascension.mkv He reversed the power gradient. He faded the Rick noise into silence. One of ffmpeg’s most terrifying flags is -map_metadata -1 . It strips every tag. Every creation time. Every GPS coordinate. Every encoder setting. The video becomes an orphan.
And you? You close your terminal. You have a video to re-encode. You type: rick and morty s03e07 ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i rick_and_morty_s03e07.mkv -c copy -movflags +faststart ready_for_plex.mp4 The episode plays. You watch. And somewhere, in the artifact-ridden margins of a frame, you swear you see Evil Morty wink. He knows you’re just another Rick who never read the fucking manual. ffmpeg -i rick_consciousness
