F P   website, discussed version: 2015-12-27, installed version: 4.2.1

Installation

• Just unzip.
• Edit ffmpeg_*.bat files and use them to automate conversion. Copy them to C:/Sys/ffmpeg or any other folder in PATH. Here are my scripts converting to MP4(H264/AAC):
  • info – no conversion, append file-info to _tmp_ffmpeg.log
  • mp4_slow – default "veryslow" conversion
  • mp4_def  – default conversion
  • mp4_tiny – for the smallest size (optimized for Sony DSC-WX80)
  • mp4_q28  – compress to CRF28
  • mp4_s2   – downscale by a factor of 2
  • mp4_i* – the same as above but with deinterlacing (-vf yadif)
  • mp3 – extract audio
  • cut – cut
  • cut_reencode – cut and re-encode

Help

• Example: C:\Sys\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i in.mts -ss 3 -t 10 -vf yadif,transpose=dir=cclock -preset veryslow out.mp4
• Commonly used options: -ss 3 -t 10 -vf transpose=dir=clock -vf code=1600:900:200:100
• ffmpeg, filters
• H.264 Encoding Guide