BASH Automation for FFmpeg processing, with Multiple Files Input and Separate Directories Output

bash-ffmpeg-multiple-io.sh

#!/bin/bash

#This script will process each file in a given input directory 
#and will create a corresponding output folder for each processed file.

# Input and output directories
input_dir="/your/input/directory"
output_dir="output_folder"

# Create the output directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$output_dir"

# Loop through each file in the input directory
for input_file in "$input_dir"/*; do
    # Check if the item is a file (not a directory)
    if [ -f "$input_file" ]; then
        # Extract the filename without extension
        filename=$(basename -- "$input_file")
        filename_no_extension="${filename%.*}"
        
        # Create a directory for this file's output
        file_output_dir="$output_dir/$filename_no_extension"
        mkdir -p "$file_output_dir"
        
        # Your FFmpeg command here
        ffmpeg -i "$input_file" -c:v libx265 "$file_output_dir/output.mp4"
        
        echo "Processed: $input_file"
    fi
done

echo "All files processed!"