FFmpeg made visual on macOS

ff·Works 5

Video Converter
The professional FFmpeg workstation for macOS
Professional video encoding on your Mac — without the command line

A Comprehensive Media Tool for macOS 
Easy for beginners. Powerful for experts.

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ffWorks with FFmpeg

A modern FFmpeg GUI for fast, flexible video conversion on macOS.

Start in minutes with a clean macOS interface, then reveal the control you need for demanding jobs. ffWorks makes FFmpeg visual: convert everyday media, or fine-tune codecs, filters, subtitles, metadata, batches and professional formats.

Quick Jobs

Drop zones are an easy way to process source files to different targets.
You can create an infinite number of drop zones. Then drop files onto a drop zone to process.

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Color Adjustments

ffWorks provides an easy way to quickly adjust color settings like exposure, contrast, saturation, gamma, vibrance, shadows, RGB, black and white balance and many more.
Converting Colorspace and the inclusion of +80 Pro LUT presets makes it a very powerful tool.

Cropping

With the all new Cropping feature it is now very easy to crop content. Both manually cropping, auto cropping and black border removal is available.

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Overlay

Adding unlimited overlays is now more easy than ever before. Add images (for example logo) or movies (pic-in-pic). Move and resize the overlay as you like.
Allowing you to add unlimited overlays very easily.

Video Quality Metrics

Examine the quality of your converted movie files with VMAF, PSNR, SSIM, CAMBI, ..

Video quality metrics that leverages a combination of different algorithms to provide a more accurate assessment of perceived video quality. 


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Video Bitrate Analyser

An easy tool that examines how much data is used per second in a video file, measured in bits per second (bps). It helps identify compression quality, detect encoding issues, and ensure consistent playback by showing bitrate variations throughout the video. This is useful for optimizing file sizes, maintaining quality standards, and troubleshooting streaming or playback problems.


VideoThumbnail Contact Sheet Creator

Generate a single image containing multiple thumbnail snapshots taken at regular intervals throughout a video. This provides a visual overview of the entire video content at a glance, useful for quickly previewing, cataloging, or identifying specific scenes without watching the full video.

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More power with optional FFmpeg

Easy start. Full control

Convert and process many audio and video files with very high quality using the optional FFmpeg with no formal knowledge. Advanced users are not left out in the cold - ffWorks has a tremendous amount of options that give you complete control to ensure the best quality.

Media support

You can use all media formats supported by the optional installed FFmpeg version. For example codecs and containers like MPEG4, H264, H265 HEVC, H266 VVC, Matroska, PRORES, DNxHD, DVVideo, AV1, MPEG TS, MPEG PS, XAVS, FLV, Theora, AVI, OGG, VP8 & VP9 (.webm), Animated GIF, VOB, MXF, GFX, AAC, MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, ALAC and many more..

Join media quickly

Stitch unlimited files together into one file. Two methods: concat passthru (blistering fast) and complex filter.

Subtitle options

Both soft subtitles (external or embedded) and hardburned subtitles are supported.

Presets

Many presets are included by default: iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, PS5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Android, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and many more

Batch multiple files at once

Process a batch of up to 8 files simultaneously and make use of all the power of your system.

Advanced FFmpeg features

450+ advanced options

Convert with control and power to get the best results.

60+ video filters

Add watermark, timecode rendering, padding and cropping, rotating, video stabilisation, sharpen, blurring, sharpening,deinterlace and many more..

Export video to images

Support for .png, .bmp, .jpg, .tiff, .dpx, .sgi, .tga 

4K, 5K & 8K workflows

High-resolution output

Audio Filters

Adjust Volume, Fade In/Out, Earwax, Audio Tempo, Bauer stereo, Channel Mapping, Dynamic normalizer, EBU R128, Exciter, ..

Images to video

Convert .png, .bmp, .jpg, .tga, .tiff, .dpx images to any movie format.

FFmpeg Output

Track FFmpeg output for debugging purposes.

Hardware Accelerated Encoding

By using Apple VideoToolBox, you can encode extremely fast to  H264, H265 and ProRes video codecs and ALAC, AAC audio codecs.

Video trimming

Set start and end points precisely.

Presets

Includes many high quality presets for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Desktop, Production, Youtube, Whatsapp, Vimeo, TikTok  and many more.  Or make and manage your own presets


Easy to start. Powerful for professional workflows.

Priced at just €22, ff·Works is as affordable as it is powerful.