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-rc5

FFmbc license is GPL v2

Please contact baptiste.coudurier@gmail.com for: - window binaries - 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-rc5:

• 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.

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.