FFMPEG: Terminal: Output name included original file ending ".mov" in output title: How to remove

Question

I successfully outputted the desired effect for my FFMPEG command. I had been removing the audio from my videos with this line of code:

 for i in *.mov; do ffmpeg -i $i -c:v copy -an $i-noaudio.mp4; done

The output results as "myInputvideo.mov-noaudio.mp4"

How might I get this to output without the ".mov" in the title? And how might I move all these outputs into a new directory entitled "no-audio"

Thank you!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '22 at 23:05

Use Parameter/Variable Expansion. instead of $i, use ${i%.mov} as follows:

Note: I replaced the variable i with file, for clarity.

#!/bin/bash

for file in *.mov; do
  ffmpeg -i ${file} -c:v copy -an ${file%.mov}-noaudio.mp4
done

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