FFmpeg

FFmpeg is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by digitalsamba in claude-code-video-toolkit.

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Install FFmpeg

Copy FFmpeg into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit/tree/main/.claude/skills/ffmpeg ~/.claude/skills/ffmpeg

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/ffmpeg/SKILL.md in digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ffmpeg
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What FFmpeg does

FFmpeg processes video and audio files for format conversion, resizing, compression, audio extraction, trimming, speed adjustment, and preparing assets for Remotion projects. Use it when an agent needs any media transformation task, such as converting GIF to MP4, extracting audio, or compressing videos.

FFmpeg is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. FFmpeg comes from a repository tagged ai-video-generator, claude-code, developer-tools, elevenlabs and open-source.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

ffmpeg -i input.gif -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p \
  -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2" output.mp4

Why these flags:

-movflags faststart - Moves metadata to start for web streaming
-pix_fmt yuv420p - Ensures compatibility with most players
scale=trunc(...) - Forces even dimensions (required by most codecs)

Resize Video

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about FFmpeg

What else does digitalsamba publish alongside FFmpeg?
FFmpeg is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ACE-Step Music Generation, ElevenLabs Audio and Frontend Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way FFmpeg does, and is maintained by digitalsamba in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit page.
How does FFmpeg compare to other Automation skills?
FFmpeg ranks #516 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of FFmpeg against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.