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+ | ====== Compress Canon EOS MOV videos to MKV (and save space)====== | ||
+ | -- //Tested with **Ubuntu 18.04** on **March 2020**// -- | ||
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+ | We will use //ffmpeg// - if you have not already installed it, do it now with | ||
+ | sudo apt install ffmpeg | ||
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+ | I have tried a few combinations: from my experience, a good trade-off between quality, compression ratio, and speed is provided by using the //h264// video codec and //libvorbis// for audio. | ||
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+ | To compress a video created with your camera, just type: | ||
+ | ffmpeg -i MVI_0123.MOV -c:v h264 -c:a libvorbis MVI_0123.mkv | ||
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+ | If you have multiple files inside your directory and you want to convert (and compress) all of them, you can use: | ||
+ | for i in *.MOV; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -c:v h264 -c:a libvorbis "${i%.*}.mkv"; done | ||
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+ | and... done! |