Usage¶

Important

ffmpeg and ffprobe must be installed and available in the PATH environment variable.

effy supports local sources:

effy input.mp4

and remote sources:

effy "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4"

Terminal window¶

effy has 3 selectable panes: info, parameters, and output. The Parameters pane is focused by default. Press Tab or Shift+Tab to switch focus.

Info pane¶

Contains general information about the provided source: file name, duration, number of streams and their types, bit rate, codecs, dimensions, etc. Basically, it's a structured ffprobe output in one pane.

Parameters pane¶

This pane contains a list of parameters to change based on the type of source provided. The list is dynamically constructed and parameters are automatically disabled when they can't be applied.

Output pane¶

When rendering starts (S or Ctrl+S) the FFmpeg processing output redirects to this pane.