This command will check whether or not the installation was successful, along with checking if you can install formulas (Homebrew Packages). Verify the installation using the following command: $ brew doctor Run the following command from your terminal: $ ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL )' Now install the command line tools using the following command: $ xcode-select -install If not, install Xcode from the app store (it’s free). This is, of course, assuming that you have Xcode installed. To install Homebrew, you need Xcode command line tools. If you have Homebrew already installed, you can skip to the next section. Let’s go ahead and install it using Homebrew. Let’s go ahead and see how to manipulate a video using this amazing tool, shall we?įFmpeg is a command line tool that’s really powerful and very easy to use. FFmpeg is here for you and you can do a lot of things with it.

The good news is that you don’t need some fancy commercial software to edit videos. Can you do it quickly? Well, not unless you know how to use some bloated software whose GUI usually has a steep learning curve! A lot of people tend to get stuck when they want to play around with videos. Let’s say you want to resize a video, extract a 10 second segment from it, and then convert it to a different format. You can quickly crop, resize, or manipulate an image without skipping a beat, but you can’t do the same for videos. We know that there are a lot of tools available for image editing. Editing videos can be a huge pain if you don’t have the right tools.

Ffmpeg crop picture