Example command line usage

The installation process of autoscrub automatically creates a command line utility for you to use. Here we will show examples of the most common usage. To see the full set of available commands and options run autoscrub --help from a terminal or look in the Command line usage reference documentation.

Note

As autoscrub is a wrapper around FFmpeg, autoscrub will accept any input video format that FFmpeg does. This includes .trec files produced by Camtasia.

Note

autoscrub automatically transcodes your video to match the recommended upload settings for YouTube. This means that the output file extension should always be .mp4.

autoprocess

The most common command you will use is autoscrub autoprocess. The autoprocess command accepts a variety of options, however they have been preconfigured with sensible defaults that will suit many users.

To use the default options, run (replace paths as appropriate):

autoscrub autoprocess input_file.mp4 output_file.mp4

The most common options you are likely to want to adjust are:

  • -d (or --silence-duration): This specifies the minimum length that autoscrub will use in detecting a silent segment (which will be sped up). Silent segments of audio that are shorter than this time will not be sped up. Adjust this to match your presentation style.
  • -t (or --target-threshold): This specifies the audio level used to determine whether there is silence or not. If the audio is below this level, for at least the length of time specified by --silence-duration, then autoscrub will speed up this segment. Adjust this to compensate for a noisy background or quite speaking volume. The units are specified in decibels (dB).

Here we specify custom values for both these options (5 second silent duration, -20dB silence threshold) as an example:

autoscrub autoprocess -d 5 -t -20 input_file.mp4 output_file.mp4

To see all available options for autoprocess, run:

autoscrub autoprocess --help