 Hello, so I was just watching this video that Luke Smith posted today and he mentioned me in that video. In this video he's talking about FFMpeg and how you can do video editing from the shell with that and he mentioned that he believed that I used FFMpeg for a lot of my videos and I do use FFMpeg a lot but most of my videos like the one you're currently watching which you just saw in intro and then there's a little outro or exit at the end as well as a little QR code that no one seems to have scanned so far. I actually use Melt for that so what is Melt? So there's a program called MLT which is the back end for applications like Kaden Live which is a video editor and Melt M-E-L-T is basically a program that lets you script out MLT scripts so you can script out video editing and this is actually the script that I use. I've changed a little bit and I've showed it before in videos. Basically what this script does is after I record videos like the one I'm recording now I can go in the folder that I'm in and I just type in tutorial render and what it does is it creates a new folder and output folder and then adds my intro and my outro and that QR code to each video and puts it in that output folder and then I can upload it so and I love FFMpeg so you might ask why don't you use FFMpeg for this and the main reason is if you look here so I have my intro video and then it says 30 here mix 30 what that's doing is for each one of these so we have our intro the main video and the ending video and they're each being faded from one to the other over 30 frames which should be a second of the video I don't know how to fade from one clip to another using FFMpeg so that's main reason I use Melt in this video or in the script rather than FFMpeg but I do love FFMpeg and I do recommend checking out Luke Smith's video because he talks about a plugin you can get I don't have plugins right on word for it but you can actually use FFMpeg to stabilize video which I did not know and I haven't looked into that yet but that's pretty cool also you know if you go to my website Films by chris.com you can type in things like MLT or Melt or FFMpeg to see a bunch of the videos I've created but I've done full series I have a whole bunch of videos right here on FFMpeg although these videos are probably a decade old at this point since last time I updated the playlists in 2014 but I can tell you these videos are definitely older than actually let me let me click on one and see oh yeah look at that screen yeah 2010 so yeah just about a decade old so there's that playlist I'll try to link to this in the description of this video I have a whole video playlist I did a few years ago on Kaden Live which is a graphical video editor for Linux and then of course I also have a series I did about eight years ago because there's clips in this video of when I found out the gender of my daughter since she's seven so these videos are at least seven years old not a whole bunch but these are specifically on using MLT and Melt to edit videos doing I think I did stabilization video stabilization in that joining clips fading clips trimming clips adding filters and effects basically anything you do in Kaden Live can be done from the shell using Melt and MLT because that's the backend for Kaden Live and as I might have mentioned in my Kaden Live series I'm not sure if I did there's actually an option when you go to export a video to export a script and it will actually generate I believe an XML file with your project settings and a script file that you can run and then you can run that script from the shell so you can go in and modify that you can design a whole project in Kaden Live export to a script and then look at that XML which is kind of clunky but you can go in there and you can actually generate XML you can write a script that will automate a lot of video editing that way as well so yeah check those out again check out Luke Smith's video on FFMpeg where he talks about it a bit and of course you can always search at my website or check out these playlists for those type of topics I thank you for watching and as always I hope that you have a great day