ffmpeg-skill gives coding agents 42 local FFmpeg video-editing tools via MCP
tom_doerr · x · 2026-10-28
ffmpeg-skill (3.1k GitHub stars, MIT) lets Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any MCP client edit footage with local FFmpeg via a single npx ffmpeg-skill command.
Key points:
- 42 tools: cut, join, silence removal, captions/karaoke, reframing, HDR→SDR and LUTs, audio cleanup, loudness normalization, multicam sync, project rendering, batch folders — each also callable as an MCP tool
- Fixed workflow: probe → edit losslessly → check → verify, with the agent verifying its own output
- Fully local: no cloud, no API keys, Python standard library only
- Ships 53 before/after demos with exact commands, all reproducible from synthetic footage
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