

Newer investigations, such as Distant Viewing TV, also indicate a shift in the field toward projects concerned with using computational techniques to expand the scope of materials digital humanists can investigate. However, there is growing interest in the field around using computational methods for the analysis of audiovisual cultural heritage materials as indicated by the creation of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Special Interest Group: Audiovisual Materials in the Digital Humanities and the rise in submissions related to audiovisual topics at the global ADHO conference over the past few years. The Digital Humanities, as a discipline, have historically focused almost exclusively on the analysis of textual sources through computational methods (Hockey, 2004). Open-Source AV Analysis Tools using FFmpeg.Creating Excerpts & Demuxing Audio & Video.Changing Containers and Codecs (Re-Wrap and Transcode).

Basic Structure and Syntax of FFmpeg commands.

Using FFmpeg in a web browser (without installing).Here is the link to the course in case anyone is interested. Years later, when I had ample opportunity and time to work with FFmpeg and had a clearer picture of the concepts, I put together a course on Udemy with diagrams, examples, and hands-on video demos to introduce not just FFmpeg, but basics of audio/video and transcoding in general. I looked for a tutorial-style basic introduction to the concepts, but could not really find one.

But I also found myself often in the same situation as the OP, since most of the resources I found were very detailed reference-like documentations which can be a bit difficult to go through for a beginner in audio/video processing like me that I was. I have greatly benefitted from the resources listed in the other answers. I sincerely apologize for that, but I do believe it is indeed very much relevant to this question and I think it adds value as an answer since this kind of introductory courses were not mentioned in other answers, nor I could find such courses elsewhere myself. Disclaimer: I fear that this could sound like self-promotion since I am linking to my own course.
