Author Archives: jdriselvato

Changing the pitch of an audio track means the tempo stays the same but the audio pitch increases/decreases. There isn’t a native way to change the pitch without also changing the playback speed. Luckily, chaining the atempo and asetrate filters … Continue reading →

Changing the tempo of an audio file is easy with atempo. This filter only accepts one value, a number between 0.5 and 100. In this example, the audio tempo is increased by 50%: So how does 1.50 equal 50%? That’s … Continue reading →

Adding an echo (or reflected sound) to an audio track is a great way to add more ambience or smoothness to a choppy playback. It’s a personal desired effect but for how simple it is to use, it’s a nice … Continue reading →

Ever get an audio file that just isn’t loud enough but when the volume is edited it peaks? The solution for this problem is to run the audio through a normalization algorithm. Normalization with loudnorm, uses a true peak loudness … Continue reading →

Part 1: (FFMPEG) HOW TO OBTAIN A YOUTUBE STREAMING KEY? Streaming a local file to YouTube is extremely easy and actually a feature that really takes your FFmpeg skills to the next level with little effort.  With the minimal amount … Continue reading →

Before working on the FFmpeg For Beginners Book, the experience I had with streaming with FFmpeg was zero but I reached out to the FFmpeg community and everyone was saying I needed to cover this topic. Fortunately for me, streaming … Continue reading →

In this section we’ll learn various useful audio filters specifically to audio but all filters will work on video as well. Since this is just an audio section, -af instead of -filter_complex unless multiple audio input sources are required. See … Continue reading →

In this section we’ll learn various useful audio filters specifically to audio but all filters will work on video as well. Since this is just an audio section, -af instead of -filter_complex unless multiple audio input sources are required. See … Continue reading →

The last two questions covered trimming the start of an audio track and trimming the end, but what does the command look like combined?  In this example, the input file is 1 minute long with the requirement of 10 seconds … Continue reading →

Note: Trimming at this point should be easily understood but for a refresher refer to answers in How to trim ‘x’ seconds from the start of an audio track?.  Trimming a couple of seconds off the end of a track … Continue reading →