[FFmpeg-user] Batch transcode and rename

[Francois Visagie]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-user [mailto:ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of
> Chris Colton
> Sent: 22 February 2016 19:45
> To: ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: [FFmpeg-user] Batch transcode and rename
> 
> I'm very new to ffmpeg but tell me if this is impossible. I'd like to have a
> command to convert all the files in a folder to prores proxy, and copy the
> audio without modification. Then I'd like to rename the transcodes to match
> original file names and rename the original files with any suffix or prefix to
> denote that they're the originals.

On Windows you can create a batch file called, say, convert.bat that contains something like:


@echo off

for %%I in (%1) do (
    : Rename filename.ext to filename.org.ext
    ren %%I ^"%%~nI.org%%~xI^"
    : Encode filename.org.ext to filename.ext (illustrative basic command line only)
    ffmpeg -i ^"%%~dpnI.org%%~xI^" -c:v prores -c:a copy %%I
)


You could process multiple input files with one command, e.g.

    convert *.mov

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