Free gui programs maybe can't do such things. Why I wish to go this way? Many gui video editing programs are overloaded and expensive. I only read about current common audio/video codecs and video file formats. The menus of DVD (if present) files should be dropped and the DVD source files should be merged to one output file. The video codec should be h.265, if even possible. I don't know if ffmpeg can take the audio/video quality (kb per s) settings from the source files for the output files. The audio codec should only fullfill the audio quality an can be for example aac, mp3, flac or vorbis. Video and audio quality should stay nearly the same, so that the difference is imperceptible. Important for me are screen size, aspect ratio and frame rate. The output files should have the same properties as the input files. For example the input file test.avi should give two output files test.mp4 and test.mkv. My wish is to convert each file to mp4 and mkv (for test purpose).

Which means all video files are stored there. Let say the above directory D:fmpeg is my work directory for ffmpeg. I'am on Windows and the video formats are different:įiles in DVD directories were recorded with a DVD recorder and then copied from the DVD to my computer hard disk. Hope this simple script can help you.I have a lot of video files of my family. MOV -Recurse foreach ( $inputVid in $originalVids ) You can use following powershell script to batch convert the video files.Ĭhange it to whatever you need before using it. To make thing easy, you need to write a powershell script that can batch convert your videos. That’s easy if you only have a few videos.īut it’s different story if you have a dozen or hundreds of files. MOV -c : v libx264 -crf 18 -c : a aac -map_metadata 0 output. The script to convert one video is like following snippet. Since I’ll use ffmpeg on Windows, I need to write a powershell script for video conversion. mp4 file size is also relatively smaller than.

My plan is to encode the video into H.264 and the audio into AAC format. Since it’s for archival purpose, I need to convert it into more portable format. The iOS by default record the videos in QuickTime. Recently I need to backup all of my videos from iPhone into my hard drive.

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