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FFMPEG Command to Apply Grayscale Filter to Video to Make it Black and White in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf format=gray -c:a copy output_bw.mp4
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you how to
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make your video black and white or
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grayscale inside ffmppg We'll be writing
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a very simple command So we have a
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simple video right here present in the
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directory
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1.mpp4 Uh let me show you the video It
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contains hello guys So it's a simple
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normal video So what I will do i will
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make this video remove all the colors
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from this video Make it black and white
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grayscale So just open your command line
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I've given this command in the
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description of this video So just write
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f
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ofmppg- i and then the input file name
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which is 1.mpp4 So we are just providing
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the input After that we are saying -vf
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We are applying a video filter and then
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we are specifically telling make this
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video as grayscale So format is equal to
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gray In this way you can do this After
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that we are just uh copying the encoding
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settings and then the output file set So
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we just say gray or black and white MP4
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So this is essentially the command guys
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very simple command We provide the input
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file then we apply the video filter
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format is equal to gray and then we copy
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the encoding settings and this is your
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output file So if I just press enter you
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will see it will process the video and
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this will not take too much long because
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it's just a 30 secondond video and uh
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once it uh start uh finished processing
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I will show you So now it has created
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this black and white video So if I uh
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play this video you will see it looks
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like like this Hello guys welcome to
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this video So in this video I will show
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So you can see all the colors is removed
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from this video It has made black and
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white
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grayscale So in this easy way you can
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how to change change uh make any video
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black and white or grayscale inside fmpp
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using this simple command So thank you
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very much guys for watching this uh
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video and also check out my website
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freemediatools.com I have given this
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command in the description of this video
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