Know what's in a video before you edit it

Before you cut a clip, you need to know what the source holds: how long it runs, which streams it has and what size it is. This helper reads a local media file's duration, streams, codecs and dimensions using ffprobe.

It is the inspection step of the media workflow lesson, which goes on to choose the cut, process one segment and keep a repeatable recipe. Use it to decide which section and output format you need before re-encoding.

It runs from the command line and needs Python 3.10 or later, plus FFmpeg with ffprobe. Use it on local videos you have permission to process. Provider accounts, model weights, GPU compute and hosting are not included.