FFmpeg Expert

Treat FFmpeg as a typed media pipeline and media editing as an evidence-driven workflow. Inspect the actual source, separate measurements from interpretations, make decisions reviewable, render to a new path, and verify at the intended boundary.

When Not to Use

• Do not use this skill for libav API programming, opaque whole-video semantic understanding, automatic publishing, rights clearance, DRM circumvention, professional broadcast/color certification, or HyperFrames-authored compositions.
• Route online media or transcript acquisition to the owning source skill, semantic frame interpretation to a vision-capable reviewer, and platform upload/API work to the platform skill.

Boundaries and Routing

• Use a YouTube/transcript capability to acquire online video or transcripts; return here only for local supplied media and transcript artifacts.
• Use HyperFrames for HTML-authored motion graphics or composition; use this skill to inspect and preprocess its media inputs or verify rendered outputs.
• Use the named platform skill for upload, publishing, account, or API operations.
• FFmpeg can extract bounded frames and audio segments but does not interpret their semantic content. Route visual interpretation to a vision-capable reviewer and preserve its observations as attributed evidence.
• Do not infer rights, consent, identity, intent, or whole-program meaning from technical metadata, sparse frames, silence intervals, or an unaligned transcript.

Evidence Classes