S02e05 Ffmpeg: Outlander

Here’s how I used FFmpeg to tame my Outlander episode. I wanted a 45-second clip of Dougal rallying the troops. With iMovie? Painful. With FFmpeg? One line:

If you’ve been avoiding the command line because you think it’s "too technical," remember: Jamie Fraser couldn’t read at 20, and he turned out fine. You can learn ffmpeg -i . outlander s02e05 ffmpeg

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who watch the Battle of Prestonpans with a box of tissues, and those who watch it with a terminal window open. Here’s how I used FFmpeg to tame my Outlander episode

ffmpeg -i Outlander.S02E05.mkv -itsoffset 0.5 -i Outlander.S02E05.mkv -map 0:v -map 1:a -c copy fixed_audio.mkv For the non-coders: that says "take the video from the first file, take the audio from the second file but delay it by half a second, and stitch them together." No quality loss. Jamie would approve of this pragmatic violence. My phone doesn’t speak DTS. FFmpeg speaks everything. Painful

Use FFmpeg to create a loop of Claire rolling her eyes at 18th-century hygiene. You know you want to.