Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English

Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English by zzzeek on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:45PM (#46405077)

sure here's a command that a program I wrote to record my practicing and produce different mixes uses

    /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i "/path/to/musicfile.mp3" -i "/path/to/covertune.mp3" \
       -filter_complex [1:a]volume=1[track1];[0a][track1]amix=normalize=false[output] \
       -map [output] -b:a 192k -metadata title=15:17:01 -metadata "artist=Me, 2025" \
       -metadata album=2025-12-23 "/path/to/file.mix.mp3"

chance of my coming up with that without deep poring over docs and tons of trial and error, or using claude (which is pretty much what I do nowadays): zero

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Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English by qbow883 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @04:54PM (#46405669)

But the chances of you being able to achieve the same with the linked tool are also zero. That's all I am really saying. I'm not arguing that ffmpeg can get very complex (I was talking about "basic" ffmpeg usage in my original comment), just that `ff convert inputfile to ext` is not really simpler than `ffmpeg -i inputfile -o outputfile.ext`, which is all that this (this specific) tool is really doing.

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Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English by zzzeek on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:14PM (#46406952)

Oh, well yes the ff tool shown here is a classic 80% kind of thing for sure . Claude OTOH will get you about 98% and can explain the options to you as well

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