ffclip

Humane ffmpeg. The 10 media recipes everyone googles, with sane defaults — a thin wrapper with zero dependencies. ffmpeg and ffprobe do the real work (they must be installed and on your PATH).

pip install ffclip

ffclip compress input.mp4 output.mp4        # shrink for sharing (H.264/AAC)
ffclip audio    input.mp4 output.mp3        # extract audio
ffclip gif      input.mp4 out.gif --from 10 --to 15
ffclip trim     input.mp4 out.mp4 --from 1:30 --to 2:45
ffclip mute     input.mp4 out.mp4           # strip the audio track
ffclip thumb    input.mp4 shot.jpg --at 5
ffclip concat   list.txt out.mp4            # join same-codec files
ffclip resize   input.mp4 out.mp4 --width 1280
ffclip speed    input.mp4 out.mp4 --factor 2 # video + audio stay in sync
ffclip info     input.mp4                   # human-readable summary

Times accept seconds (90, 90.5) or HH:MM:SS. ffmpeg's own progress passes straight through to your terminal.

Notes

• gif uses the two-pass palette method, so the output doesn't look like it was dithered by a potato — unlike most one-liner recipes.
• speed chains atempo filters, so factors outside 0.5–2 (like 4x) work and audio stays pitched correctly relative to video.
• trim re-encodes for frame accuracy; if you want instant lossless cuts and can live with keyframe granularity, that's a different tool.
• Outputs are never overwritten unless you pass --force / -y.
• concat takes a text file with one file 'path' per line (ffmpeg concat demuxer format) and joins same-codec files without re-encoding.

POSIX only (Linux, macOS). Python 3.9+.

License

MIT.