You-don't-need-an-app-for-that

Last updated on 21 Apr 2020

Images

Remove EXIF with ImageMagick; rewrites file.

mogrify -strip file.jpg

Resizing and reducing .jpg filesize:

convert file_input.jpg -strip -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -adaptive-resize 30% -quality 85 file_output.jpg

Dealing with gifs

# Speed up video 4x
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf "setpts=0.03125*PTS" video-4x.mp4

# Create GIF
# https://superuser.com/a/556031
ffmpeg -ss 0 -t 10 -i video-4x.mp4 -vf "fps=24,scale=480:-1:flags=fast_bilinear,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -loop 0 output.gif

# Or use a more modern format, .webm (does not work on iOS Safari)
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -b:v 500k -crf 40 -auto-alt-ref 0 output.webm

# Convert gif to mp4
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/294892
ffmpeg -i animated.gif -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2" video.mp4

Downloading from YouTube

# Downloading videos as .mp4
youtube-dl --format mp4 "https://youtube.com/..."

# Extract audio
youtube-dl -x "https://youtube.com/..."