Compress Video (Automator script)

compress-video.sh

# in automator, "Get Selected Finder Items" -> receive "Current movie files", then "Run shell script" with below script
# If is already an mp4, adds "compressed" on the end (so doesn't overwrite) and compresses a bit more heavily
# otherwise converts video like .mov to .mp4
# the `>/dev/null 2>&1 &` bit moves conversion to the background so it doesn't freeze Finder
for f in "$@"
do
  if [[ "$f" == *.mp4 ]]; then
    /opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:v libx264 -crf 25 "${f%.mp4}.compressed.mp4" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
  else
    /opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:v libx264 -crf 24 "${f%.*}.mp4" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
  fi
done