Turning a video to black and white is also accomplished by using the hue filter.
Setting the saturation value to 0 results in a black and white video, as seen in figure 58.0:
$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "hue=s=0" output.mp4
Challenge: In addition to changing the video to black and white, add a grain filter to make the video look vintage.
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