Exquisite paintings, with analog signal and modular gear as brush

Working with image signal instead of sound remains to many an undiscovered country. One artist is producing beautiful meditations on analog video – and charting his work.

Quick! This ffmpeg cheat sheet solves your video, audio conversion needs, for free

Video, audio, convert, extract – once, these tasks were easy with QuickTime Pro, but now it’s gone. ffmpeg to the rescue – any OS, no money required.

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2019

ProRes Support, Now in Open Source ffmpeg Video Library and Converter

ProRes encoding. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Satoshi Tomiyama. Big news for codec nerds – the major free video tool is adding support for Apple’s ProRes format. Spotted on the ffmpeg news feed: FFmpeg now has a ProRes decoder in master git. We want to support more raw or 10bit or broadcast codecs. We need samples of the […]

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2011

Free Miro Video Converter for Windows, Mac; Miro 3.0

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2010

More ffmpeg Recipes for Free Video Conversion on Any Platform

Peter Kirn - February 10, 2010

Drag Windows into GNU-Land with MinGW, Let Free Visualist Tools Roam

Peter Kirn - January 22, 2010

ffmpeg Video Conversion Recipes: Building on Your OS; Splitting Video, Audio

Peter Kirn - January 20, 2010

Testing Notebook: Want to Help Us with Linux Video Editors (or Just Follow Along)?

Peter Kirn - January 20, 2010

ArKaos GrandVJ 1.1: Proper Alpha, Crossfader Support, Smart Input, Painted Black

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2009

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