ffmpeg

What I learned letting Claude edit a YouTube Short

I wanted a 37 second video of my doorbell playing the Pink Panther theme, and I didn't want to edit it. So I had Claude cut the whole thing in ffmpeg. It got there, eventually, after being confidently wrong about the same problem four times in a row and me refusing to accept it.

Animating my YouTube intro without a video editor

I wanted an animated logo intro for YouTube and I don't own After Effects. My logo was already an SVG, so I animated it with the browser's own animation API, screenshotted it 378 times, and let ffmpeg turn the pile of PNGs into a 1080p60 video. Total output: 6.3 seconds, about 180KB.

I built gifify to simplify making GIFs

My screen recorder produces 53 MB GIFs and the wiki needs 2 MB ones. I wrapped my ffmpeg scripts in a local web app with visual trimming, presets, and a file size readout, and now clips for the wiki and Discord take about a minute. It's free on GitHub if you want it.