Installing FFmpeg and ImageMagick on macOS

First, check if Homebrew is installed by running the following command in your terminal:

brew --version

Check out this video tutorial if you’re not familiar with terminal.

If Homebrew is not installed, you can install it using the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

After installation, if you’re prompted to add Homebrew to your system PATH, copy the provided command and run it with sudo. You may see something like this:

like this but [you should copy it from the your terminal output of the previous command]

sudo echo /Users/<your mac username>/.zprofile
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/<your mac username>/.zprofile eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

It will ask for your login password and you’re done with the brew installation.

For more detailed instructions, visit the Homebrew Installation Guide.

Once Homebrew is installed and correctly added to your system’s PATH, you can install FFmpeg and ImageMagick with the following command:

brew install ffmpeg imagemagick

FFmpeg is a powerful tool for working with video and audio, and ImageMagick is used for image processing. This command will install both utilities at once.

After the installation completes, verify that both tools are installed by checking their versions:

ffmpeg -version
magick -version

You should see version information for FFmpeg and ImageMagick, confirming that they were installed successfully.