Media processing in the CLI

using ffmpeg, imagemagick and so on

December 12,2025

convert RW2 format to jpg with imagemagick. while maintaining quality.

for f in *.RW2; do
  magick "$f" -quality 85 "GooglePhotosBackup/${f%.*}.jpg"
  exiftool -tagsFromFile "$f" -all:all "GooglePhotosBackup/${f%.*}.jpg" -overwrite_original
done

convert mp4 into good quality video.

for f in *.{MP4}; do
  ffmpeg -i "$f" -map_metadata 0 -vcodec libx265 -crf 22 -tag:v hvc1 -movflags +faststart "GooglePhotosBackup/${f%.*}.mp4"
done

Hear from me.