Ffmpeg guide, useful for building filter graphs

FFmpeg.guide is a GUI for creating FFmpeg filters and complex commands

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75$/year subscribtion model for a graphical user interface.. In contrast Total Commander for life costs 39€ + tax.
Expensive UI lol
I find asking ChatGPT works for lots of ffmpeg uses. Maybe mine are simple when compared to other contexts though…
- Yes, ChatGPT's greatest strength for me is as a man parser. This is especially helpful for tools that do a bajillion things like ffmpeg. Just finding the relevant parts of the manual can take a prohibitively long time.
But part of the fun of FFmpeg is spending two days trying to figure out how to get it to do what you are trying to do.
- When writing my filtergraphs, I've found the following three "tricks" to be immensely helpful
  
  Use an actual editor. Fish shell has a keybind that opens the current prompt in your $EDITOR, and saving+quitting returns to the editor. Makes multi line ffmpeg filters trivial. Doubly so if your editor has something like TabNine completions
  
  If that's not enough, write the filter in a dedicated file, and use either editor automation or something like entr to run ffmpeg's graph2dot command and then graphviz to get a visualization of said graph. Helps ferret out bugs
  
  Build up more complex graphs using either ffplay or mpv. You can add filters at runtime to mpv via the repl (press ~) and the vf add command

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