The macOS Terminal Toolbox for Media Hacking.
Zero GUI bloat. Pure UNIX stream speed. Concatenate or crossfade videos, apply cinematic color grading & optical FX with videoeffects, generate VHS/datamosh glitches, cut on the BPM or strip vlog silence, normalize audio to broadcast LUFS, and convert images to WebP—all with live fzf previews and non-destructive defaults.
Stream-Copy Zero Loss
When videos share codecs and frame rates, vidglue and videoWithoutAudio bypass re-encoding entirely. Merging multiple gigabytes finishes in hundreds of milliseconds without generational degradation.
Non-Destructive Defaults
No tool will ever overwrite an existing destination file unless you pass the explicit --force flag. Preview batch commands safely anytime with --dry-run.
DSP & Audio Lab
Native DSP manipulation: pitch-preserving tempo sync via aubio, -14 LUFS broadcast normalization, semitone pitch shifting, and sample-accurate fade envelopes to eliminate boundary clicks.
Interactive fzf Cockpit & Wizards
Run mytools or <tool> -i for guided wizards with live ffprobe file metadata previews, Tab multi-select checklists, Equivalent Command generation, and direct macOS clipboard (pbcopy) export.
Interactive Command Studio
Construct exact, production-ready terminal commands visually with live effect reference previews. Browse visual presets, toggle flags, adjust parameters, and copy instantly.
Open Terminal and move into the folder with your media. Tip: Type cd with a space, drag-and-drop your folder from Finder into Terminal, and press Enter.
Combine custom flags before -a (all files in current folder) or before filenames. Add -n (--dry-run) anytime to preview safely without changing files.
-i) & Code Sheets
Don't want to memorize flags? Run <tool> -i for a step-by-step wizard that prints the exact Equivalent command, or run mytools cs for instant terminal code sheets!
Short Code Sheets & One-Liner Recipes
Copy-ready terminal one-liners and multi-step pipelines. Filter by task, click COPY to grab any recipe, or click STUDIO to customize its parameters visually. (In Terminal, run mytools cs anytime!)
-i Guided Wizard
-n Dry-Run Preview
-f Force Overwrite
-o <dir> Output Folder
-m / --mp3 Direct MP3 Output (all wav* tools)
-b <kbps> MP3 Bitrate (192 / 256 / 320)
-a All Images in Folder (img2webp)
| Tool | Task / Recipe Goal | Short Code One-Liner | Actions |
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⚡ vidglitch Visual Simulator
Live preview of video shader filters applied by vidglitch via FFmpeg filter graphs.
🎚️ DSP Audio Waveform Lab
Real-time canvas visualizer illustrating how wavfade, wavtrim, and wavpitch shape waveforms.
Complete Technical Catalog
27 purpose-built CLI commands. Every option, format, and example documented with mathematical precision.
Installation & Dependency Health
Zero-friction setup. Pure Bash symlinks in ~/.local/bin and automatic Zsh completion integration in ~/.zfunc.
Clone the repository to your preferred coding directory on macOS.
Links all commands to ~/.local/bin and registers completion functions in ~/.zshrc.
Verifies all dependencies and installs any missing Homebrew packages automatically.
macOS Finder Quick Actions
Convert files directly from Finder's right-click context menu. Ready-to-paste AppleScript templates included in quick-actions/.