FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage.

What you can do with FFmbc:

• Import your files in Final Cut Pro, AVID Media Composer, Adobe Premiere

• Create XDCAM HD422 files in .mov or .mxf
• Create XDCAM IMX/D-10 files in .mov or .mxf
• Create AVID DNxHD files in .mov
• Create DVCPROHD files in .mov or .mxf
• Create ProRes 422 or 4444 files in .mov

• Convert V210 Files
• Convert HD YUV BT709 to SD BT601 and vice versa
• Convert AVCIntra 50 and 100
• Convert MPEG-TS files with SMPTE 302M audio
• Convert AVCHD files correctly
• Convert ProRes 422 and 4444 files

• Rewrap IMX/D-10, AVCHD, DVCPROHD to Quicktime for editing in Final Cut Pro

• Burn ASS or SRT subtitles files in videos

• Merge and split your audio tracks
• Create Quicktime files containing time code tracks
• Color conversion from HD to SD

• Read timecode tracks from MXF, Quicktime
• Creating audio files (mp3 and m4a) with cover art
• Keep or add covert art when converting your audio files
• Faststart MP4 for streaming (replace header in front) automatically

Current stable release is version 0.6.1

Current release candidate version is 0.7-rc7

FFmbc license is GPL v2

Please contact baptiste.coudurier@gmail.com for: - consulting work - commercial support

Several years of expertise in broadcast codecs: ProRes, DNxHD, IMX/D-10, AVC-Intra, formats: MXF, GXF, MOV and usages: Avid, FCP, interlacing, time code, metadata.

Please support the project by donating. Thanks a lot.

Any help is welcome:

• Documentation help
• Wiki pages describing processes and workflow
• File validation: testing files created by FFmbc with Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, etc...

Please join Freenode irc channel #ffmbc to get online help. Ask any question on the ffmbc-dev or ffmbc-discuss groups.

FFmbc-0.7-rc8:

• Sync on FFmpeg git 7cbb856efe6ccab7485bb96ad3887472a6519ffa
• New -tff and -bff cli options, -top is removed
• AVCIntra decoding is now supported
• Parallel frame multi-threaded decoding is now enabled
• Prores 422 and Prores 4444 decoding
• When writing MXF files, use more correct key for KLV Fill packets
• DVCPROHD encoding in Quicktime or MXF format is now supported
• Fix detection of some DVCAM files
• Fix decoding artefact in bottom rows of Quantel DVCPROHD 1080i files
• Support reading AVID MXF OpAtom DNxHD files
• New video filter 'sub' to burn ASS and SRT subtitles
• New 'dvcam', 'dvcpro', 'dvcpro50', 'dvcprohd' targets
• Detect right to left languages in subtitle burning filter
• Correctly write drop frame system timecode and continuity count in MXF files
• Correctly use global file duration when displaying information about Quicktime files
• Correctly compute aspect ratio from clean aperture in Quicktime files
• Display starting system timecode for MXF files
• FFprobe now correctly displays width and height for files using h264 cropping
• DV muxer changed to only accept big endian pcm
• Audio sync disabled by default for GXF files
• Prores encoder with support for interlaced, 422 and 444
• Support writing AFD information in MXF files
• Support V210 and uncompressed 4:2:2 UYVY in MXF files
• Support P2 MXF files
• Support Op1a MXF DNxHD files
• Fix avisynth RGB24/32 upside-down decoding
• Fix DPX encoding, now compatible with Nuke
• Improved MXF muxer compatibility with Sony Vegas Pro 11
• Support encoding H.264 10 bit and 4:2:2 with x264
• Improved Quicktime muxer compatibility with Final Cut Pro and XDCAMHD 422
• Commandline options -vcodec,-acodec,-scodec are not reset anymore between streams
• Faster V210 decoding
• Support writing MXF DNxHD files
• .mpg extension will now produce MPEG-2 PS by default
• Removed IMX bitstream filters, formatting is now done automatically
• Framerate now needs to be explicitely specified when reading raw uncompressed video files
• H264 encoding in MXF format is now supported
• Progressive Quicktime files created will now be properly recognized by FCP
• New filters from BBC: waveform monitor, w3fdif deinterlacing, stretch4to3, repeatframe
• New -metadata_tags cli option to see what metadata tags are supported in each output format
• Export MPEG-2 GOP timecode as metadata
• Correctly read interlaced information from DV files
• DV files produced are now more standard compliant
• Improved quality for the ProRes encoder

FFmbc-0.6:

• Fix auto-rotate iphone 4 files
• Increase maximum number of audio channel mappings to 64
• New "aspect" option to pad filter, to pad video to a specific display aspect ratio
• New parameter to crop filter to keep display aspect ratio when cropping
• Improve yuv 4:2:2 to rgb conversion quality
• Fix aspect ratio handling with libavfilter
• Re-enabled shared libraries support
• Fix DNxHD colors in Quicktime
• Print correct ratecontrol and bitrate information when encoding
• Write id3v2 v2.3 tags in mp3 files, compatible with Windows
• Support stream copying and muxing of AMR NB packed frames
• Flash F4V muxer, to allow muxing vp6 and mp3 the way Flash supports it
• New options for libx264 codec, update your commandlines parameters
• You can now specify -preset, -tune and -fastfirstpass with libx264 codec
• Print progression time in hh:mm:ss.us instead of secs
• New "faststart" option in mov/mp4 muxer that automatically replace the header in front
• Print ETA if duration is known
• New "tinterlace" filter ported from mplayer
• Allow one video filter chain per output stream
• Fix yadif filter output, it was missing one frame previously
• New "imx50" and "imx30" targets, to make encoding simpler
• If audio channel count is less than 4 in MXF D10, automatically set it to 4
• Automatically set vbv buffer size to the maximum when encoding mpeg-2 cbr
• New "xdcamhd422" target
• Support DVCAM 4:2:0 in GXF
• Write aspect ratio information in GXF files
• With libx264 codec, correctly support specifying a custom 2pass log file
• When duplicating frames, correctly duplicate the previous frame
• Enhance -metadata option, can now take comma separated tag=value pairs
• Experimental mplayer filters support using -vf mp
• Mux DVCPRO HD in quicktime correctly
• Allow DNxHD encoding with Avid Nitris compatibility
• Fix decoding of 16bit png files
• Reenable -s commandline option
• New filter colormatrix to convert between bt 601 and bt 709
• Hide mmx/sse2 internal symbols, to allow creating a shared library from static libraries
• Support multiple external reference files per track in Quicktime files
• Fix -t and -vframes by considering output
• Mpeg-2 encoder now sets correct aspect ratio even with square pixels
• Mpeg-2 encoder now writes sequence display extension if color primaries are specified
• Dithering when downsampling from 10 bits to 8 bits
• Options are now reset between -i, output files and -newaudio,-newvideo parameters
• Display starting time code for MXF and Quicktime files
• Remove FFserver
• Fix Avisynth input audio stream timebase

FFmbc-0.5:

• Sync on FFmpeg svn r25202
• Yadif video deinterlacing filter
• Overlay video filter
• Fade video filter
• HQDn3d video filter
• Rename ffmpeg binary to ffmbc
• Disable shared libraries
• Remove -s resizing output cli option, use -vf scale
• 23.98 and 24 fps support in MXF muxer
• Mpeg-2 aspect ratio bitstream filter, to change aspect ratio without reencoding
• Fix an issue with -async and audiomerge
• Fix an issue with the fade filter
• Write interlacing information in mov files, fix deinterlacing with quicktime player
• Correctly support interlaced in yuv4mpeg and quicktime
• Display interlacing when printing information
• Fix an issue with resampling and audiomerge

FFmbc-0.4:

• Sync on FFmpeg svn r21845
• Full support for reading and writing covert art in mp3 and iTunes m4a,m4v,mp4
• "-coverfile" commandline option to set a cover file. png,jpg,bmp supported
• Correctly write Quicktime metadata as utf-8
• Fixed a bug with temporal offset when muxing mpeg-2 long gop in MXF
• Huge speedup when opening Quicktime and mpeg-4 files
• Timecode for Quicktime and MXF files can now be set when stream copying
• Added x264 sources in contrib directory, git 5b86182d1240b441f28462abf3d40b7371de5ba3
• Enable pthreads by default
• Fixed a bug with interlaced VC-3 decoding
• Integrate libavfilter. New commandline option -vf, see doc/libavfiter.texi
• Auto-rotate iPhone 3GS files
• Support lyrics in mp3 and iTunes m4a,m4v,mp4
• Automatically set current UTC time in created files
• New AVFMT_HAS_PTS flag in AVInputFormat to specify that format has pts
• Write and read metadata "reel_name" in mov timecode track if present
• MPEG TS muxer now produces streams playable by VLC and Quicktime

FFmbc-0.3:

• Sync on FFmpeg svn r20539
• Write Quicktime timecode track
• Set closed gop flag for first gop when encoding with b frames
• Search relative path when open Quicktime reference files

FFmbc-0.2:

• Sync on FFmpeg svn r19958
• Advanced Metadata support
• S302M decoder
• XDCAM HD 422 muxer
• MXF 720p muxing
• New RM demuxer

FFmbc-0.1:

• D10/IMX bitstream filter to remove klv header from D10/IMX elementary stream to be copied in MXF
• "-map_audio_channel" commandline option to split and merge audio channels
• "-timecode" commandline option to set timecode start when encoding