You can find Terminal in the Utilities folder in your Mac’s main Applications folder. It lets you type commands on a command line prompt, and run programs that do not have a graphical user interface, like ffmpeg. Terminal is an application that is included with macOS. See GUI Alternatives below if you decide these instructions are too much trouble! :) Open Terminal I’m happy to help anyone who runs into trouble with these instructions (especially if your troubles help me improve the instructions!). It assumes no previous experience with the Terminal command line. This guide covers how to install and use ffmpeg on your Mac. Installing and running it on your Mac can be a little bit of a hassle, especially if you’ve never used the command line in Terminal before, but I’ve written up these detailed instructions to get you started. There is a free tool called ffmpeg that makes it easy to convert an original video file into something much smaller (as little as 10% the size, in some cases!) but still very high quality. Open the terminal and run ffmpeg to see whether it works.In these times of communicating remotely, sending video files to each other (and even to customers) is becoming a daily reality! But the videos that our phones and computers record are often extremely large, as they are meant to be high-quality originals. Copy the 'ffmpeg' executable to /usr/local/bin.ĥ.

In the window that appears, open 'Resources.'Ĥ.

Control-Click the FFmpegX package, and choose 'Show Package Contents.'ģ. Download FFmpegX DMG package online to your Mac.Ģ. Since FFmpegX works on Mac and it includes FFmpeg, we can just extract FFmpeg from FFmpegX package.

Here, I'll show you how to use ffmpeg command line tool on Mac. However, it's too difficult for regular people. You can compile FFmpeg with the open source files yourself, using your own compiling options. So is there a method to run FFmpeg on Mac? Sure.

Command line is usually more efficient the GUI. If you are familiar with FFmpeg command line tools, a graphic user interface may be helpless for you.

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