Now you’ll ideally want to update your user PATH to include the path that you’ve extracted 7-zip to. If you don’t have 7-zip, download and install that first to decompress the downloaded ffmpeg release archive. Be sure to check the main ffmpeg downloads page for newer builds if you’re reading this page way in the future. You can grab a release build in 7-zip archive format from here (recent as of the publish date of this post).

If you don’t have homebrew already, go get that done first. On macOS, you’re best off using homebrew. Skip ahead to the ffmpeg Cheat Sheet section below if you already have it installed and ready to go. I’ve put together a ffmpeg cheat sheet below that has some quick and easy usages documented. Did you do a screen recording of a meeting session and find you need to share it around, but it’s way too large in filesize?įfmpeg is the clean and easy command line approach. Got an audio or video file to compress or convert? Or maybe you’re looking to split off a section of a video file. I find myself using it frequently for both personal and work use.

This post contains my ffmp eg cheat sheet.įfmpeg is a very useful utility to have installed for common audio and video conversion and modification tasks.

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