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How to Resize,Scale & Compress Any Video Without Losing Quality Using FFMPEG in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
Command used in the video:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1280:-2 output.mp4
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I'll show you a ffmppg
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command which can actually uh resize
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your video it can actually change the
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aspect ratio or it can transform the uh
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width and the height you can let's
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suppose if your if your video is having
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uh 1080p quality you can change this
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quality to lower the quality you can
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increase the quality as well so this is
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a simple fmpg command i will show you so
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I have this input video here if you see
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2.MPP4 so I just need to resize this
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video so we simply write here ffmpg- i
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and then followed by the name of the
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video which I will simply say
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2.mpp4 after that we actually I have
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given this command in the description of
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this video i got this command from this
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articlestack overflow.com where someone
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has given this command so I personally
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tried this command which works perfectly
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and then we simply provide this option
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which is -vf which stands for video
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filter so we're providing a video filter
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of fmpp which is called as scale so this
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scale
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filter you can see we simply write here
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scale is equal to and then we simply
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provide the
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uh width in this case so let's suppose
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we want to change the width here so this
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is actually 1280 into 720 video if I
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open this video you see the size of this
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video is 1280 into 720 it's a simple
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normal YouTube video if I show you the
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properties here of this video details of
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this you will see the frame width is
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1280 height is 720 so if I want to
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manipulate this change this so let's
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suppose I change this to
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200 and uh
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then we provide colon and then we just
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write dash 2 minus 2 so this simply
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calculate the height accordingly so this
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is this is meant by this you can even
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provide 200 right here as well so this
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will actually transform this video to
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200 width 200 height and then after that
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we give the output file name so you can
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give here
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compressed.mpp4 so we basically lower
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down the quality of this video this is a
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command fmppi the input video then we
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providing this - VF filter scale is
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equal to then the width and the height
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and then this output file if you execute
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this you will see it will actually
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process this
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video and uh it will actually create
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this video here compressed.mpp4 MP4 in
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the same directory and if you see the
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size of this video if I hover onto this
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you will see 2.77 MGB but the original
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size of this video was 12.8 MGB because
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we lowered down the quality of this
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video you can see as you can see the
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video is slightly lowered in terms of
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quality it is blurry so if you want to
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make your videos lower down the quality
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you want to change it resize it scaling
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dimensions if I show you the dimensions
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of this code go to properties details if
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you see it has changed this to 200 200
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so very simple command and
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uh so you can see that
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it's we have the scaling filter which is
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available in
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ffmppg and uh we can do this 800
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by can provide any width and the height
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here and it will just uh do that for you
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d size with any width and height and
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then it will process it it will create
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this so I've given the command in the
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description uh you can basically check
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out the article as well where they
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have you can see
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that so this stack overflow article they
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have given this command i have given
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this article in the description of this
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video so they have explained each option
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in this in detail as well so you can
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check out this article and thank you
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very much for watching this video and
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also check out my website
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freemediatools.com which contains
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thousands of tools regarding audio video
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