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Convert video files to MP4 through FFMPEG

This is my personal list of functions that I wrote for converting mov files to mp4!

Command Flags

Flag Options Description
-codec:a libfaac, libfdk_aac, libvorbis Audio Codec
-quality best, good, realtime Video Quality
-b:a 128k, 192k, 256k, 320k Audio Bitrate
-codec:v mpeg4, libx264, libvpx-vp9 Video Codec
-b:v 1000, 2500, 5000, 8000 Video Bitrate
-vf scale -1:X Resize Video (X is height)
-qmin 10 -qmax 42 ??? https://gist.github.com/dvlden/b9d923cb31775f92fa54eb8c39ccd5a9#gistcomment-2972745
MP4 - 1080p

ffmpeg -i input.mov -preset slow -codec:a libfdk_aac -b:a 128k -codec:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 4500k -minrate 4500k -maxrate 9000k -bufsize 9000k -vf scale=-1:1080 output.mp4

MP4 - 720p

ffmpeg -i input.mov -preset slow -codec:a libfdk_aac -b:a 128k -codec:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 2500k -minrate 1500k -maxrate 4000k -bufsize 5000k -vf scale=-1:720 output.mp4

MP4 - 480p

ffmpeg -i input.mov -preset slow -codec:a libfdk_aac -b:a 128k -codec:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 1000k -minrate 500k -maxrate 2000k -bufsize 2000k -vf scale=-1:480 output.mp4

MP4 - 360p

ffmpeg -i input.mov -preset slow -codec:a libfdk_aac -b:a 128k -codec:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 750k -minrate 400k -maxrate 1000k -bufsize 1500k -vf scale=-1:360 output.mp4

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