effy

A small and friendly terminal FFmpeg helper that simplifies common tasks.

Features

• change a video resolution, bitrate, frame rate, speed
• change an audio bitrate, volume, pitch, tempo
• apply audio effects (crystalizer)
• extract or remove audio from the video
• trim video/audio
• use hardware acceleration
• apply presets (preload in the UI, or immediately from the CLI)

Usage

Important

ffmpeg and ffprobe must be installed and available in the PATH env variable

effy input.mp4
effy "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4"

# Presets
effy --preset "noaudio:1;scale:250;output:mp4" input.mp4
effy --preset "noaudio:1;scale:250;output:mp4" --apply input.mp4

Install

Download pre-compiled binaries from Releases

Or install using cargo:

cargo install --locked effy

Or compile from source:

1. Install Rustup
2. Clone this repo
3. cargo build --release
4. Navigate to ./target/release and look for effy binary

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