"I eventually learned that most people prefer buttons. But that week, I successfully edited the church video. Pastor Jeff’s cough was removed. My piano solo was flawless. And my father, for the first time, watched a football game without a single commercial break. He never asked how it worked. Which, in retrospect, was the highest compliment an engineer can receive. FFmpeg remains, to this day, the most reliable tool I’ve ever used. Unlike my family."
"That would be destructive . We need non-destructive transcoding . What we need is a command-line tool that can handle containers, codecs, filters, and streaming. A Swiss Army chainsaw of video." young sheldon s06e09 ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i football.avi -filter_complex "[0:v]drawtext=text='Sheldon was right':fontcolor=white:fontsize=24" -ss 01:15:30 -to 01:30:00 final_highlight.mkv "I eventually learned that most people prefer buttons
He types:
ffmpeg -i church_pageant.avi -ss 00:03:22 -t 00:00:05 -af "volume=enable='between(t,3,8)':volume=0" -vf "delogo=x=120:y=45:w=60:h=20" -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast clean_christmas.mp4 My piano solo was flawless
"So… it’s like a smarter VCR?"
"Just rewind the tape, freak."