automation

Automate Video Tasks with ffmpeg-engineering-handbook

Name: Automate Video Tasks with ffmpeg-engineering-handbook
Author: endcycles

Get a practical cheatsheet for video automation. For founders needing media processing pipelines.

From the repo · “Practical cheatsheet for video automation, clipping, and media processing pipelines”

87 stars8 forksGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Jul 27Updated 7/27/2026100% free · open source

What it does

The ffmpeg-engineering-handbook provides a practical cheatsheet for automating video processing tasks, such as clipping and media processing pipelines.

When to use it

•When you need to automate video editing tasks for your startup's social media content
•When you want to create a media processing pipeline for your video-sharing platform
•When you need to clip and process videos in bulk for your e-learning course

Ready-to-paste prompt

Use the command `ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale=640:480, crop=320:240:100:100" output.mp4` to scale and crop a video

Heads up: Make sure you have FFmpeg installed on your system and the executable is in your system's PATH, as the cheatsheet assumes you have a working FFmpeg installation

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

⚡ Runs out of the box

A prompt/skill package — nothing to install beyond adding it to your AI tool.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ffmpeg-engineering-handbook && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/ffmpeg-engineering-handbook/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/ffmpeg-engineering-handbook/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Automate Video Tasks with ffmpeg-engineering-handbook works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Automate Video Tasks with ffmpeg-engineering-handbook is a documents-only repository (24 doc files) — something you read, not something you run. There is nothing to install. Last commit 3 months ago, MIT license.

Size

Documents only

24 documents · 47 min skim

Setup

Nothing to install

A guide / curated list. Just read it and follow the links.

Runs on

Nowhere — you read it

A reading resource, not a program.

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it

What's in each folder

docs/Documentation22 files

READMEDocumentedMIT licenseUpdated 3 mo ago