[devadvance]

Author here. This is the same journey I went through and I 100% agree! It can be intimidating at first, but FFmpeg is a a worthwhile utility to begin learning.

I've also added some shell functions[0] to my dotfiles to make it a bit easier to use when switching between several different machines.

[0] https://gist.github.com/devadvance/03d3c8f57b3e0254fb989e946...

[jonplackett]

You've made a really handy cheat sheet, thanks! Bookmarked it for future use!

And yeah, it's great, and not just for gifs. Just quickly re-encoding something in a different format / container is so much easier than faffing around opening a proper program.

Took a while to not get annoyed with it though and figure out annoying watch-outs like -pix_fmt yuv420p, which I now finally have memorised.