Media conversion on the command line

Remove EXIF metadata from an image

# Remove all EXIF metadata.
exiftool -all= image.jpg
# Exclude DateTimeOriginal.
exiftool -all= -DateTimeOriginal\<DateTimeOriginal image.jpg
# Exclude GPSPosition.
exiftool -all= -GPSPosition\<GPSPosition image.jpg

Convert multiple images to PDF

convert image1.jpg image2.png image3.bmp output.pdf

Remove audio information from a video

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -an output.mp4

Convert video to H.264

Note: Audio disabled

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 24 -movflags faststart -an output.mp4

Convert video to WEBM

Note: Audio disabled

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 40 -an output.webm