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FFMPEG Command to Scale MP4 Video into All Popular Quality Versions 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p
Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v scale=1920:1080 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset fast 1080p.mp4 -filter:v scale=1280:720 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset fast 720p.mp4 -filter:v scale=854:480 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset fast 480p.mp4 -filter:v scale=640:360 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset fast 360p.mp4 -filter:v scale=426:240 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset fast 240p.mp4
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you how to
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basically scale or convert your videos
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into various uh quality formats such as
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whenever you try to upload a video in
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different qualities i will show you
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ffmpg command which will create all
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these videos qualities instantly so you
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can see we have a simple mp4 video in my
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directory so I have given this command
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in the description of this video so as
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soon as I paste this command here so
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this will actually scale or convert this
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uh video to various quality types which
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is uh 2 240p 480p full HD HD so it will
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actually convert this single video and
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it will create uh five versions of this
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video in different qualities so let me
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just replace the name here which is
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1.MPP4 and execute this so now you will
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see it will create these five qualities
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of
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videos 180p 720p 480p 360p and 240p so
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it is just executing this command here
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so just wait for the command to finish
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so it's a very useful command because if
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you try to upload a video on social
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media in different qualities this
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command will be very much helpful you
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basically execute this command and then
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it will create the five versions of this
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which is
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240p you can see that so with this
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single command we actually generated
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five versions of this
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video so just wait for the command to
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finish so you can see it is also showing
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this progress bar it is processing this
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video bit by bit and you can see that
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so so I've given this command in the
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description of this video so this is
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actually the original video
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here if I try to open this you will see
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this is the original
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video about
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uh 2 minute 10 second this is actually
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the length of the video so the command
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will take time depending upon how much
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is the length of the video so now it has
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successfully processed it and it has
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created five versions of this video in
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different qualities here so you can see
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that so we can try try to open this
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video in
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240p you can now see this is will be
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little bit compressed and you can see
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little bit blurry as well so this is
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there in the 240p quality and now this
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will be in the 360p
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quality little bit better but still it
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is
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blurry and this this is the same process
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youtube also follows the same process
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whenever you try to upload a video on
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YouTube it it basically makes five
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versions of the video in different
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qualities depending upon the internet
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connection of the user so whenever they
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are uh seeing the video it creates this
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executes this command
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okay and this is actually 720 here HD
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version of the video
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uh hello
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and this is actually the 180p which is a
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full HD
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so you can see that so with this single
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command uh now let me show you the
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command here it is little bit complex
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very long command so first of all we
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provide the input here ffmppg- i input
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file then we apply these filters dash
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filter v we are scaling this video in
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different five qualities here first of
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all 920 by 1080p we are using this
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encoder here lib x64 we are having the
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CRF value which is 23 preset fast and
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this is the first quality here 1080p
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then again we are applying this second
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filter which will scale this video
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in 1280 by
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720 this will be 720 here this will be
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so here we are just having the scale
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property here so you actually manipulate
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the scale property in the video filter
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you provide the width and the height and
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it will scale down the video in
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different qualities here so you can see
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that so with this single command you can
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generate the five versions of qualities
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so the command is given in the
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description and thank you very much for
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watching this video and also check out
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my website here which is
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freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools
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regarding audio video and image
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