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avconv vs ImageMagick

A side-by-side look at avconv and ImageMagick. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

avconv

avconv

Video & Movies

avconv is a free and open-source command-line tool for converting audio and video files between formats. It is a fork of the popular FFmpeg project. avconv supports a wide range of codecs and file formats and can perform various editing tasks during conversion.

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ImageMagick

ImageMagick

Photos & Graphics

ImageMagick is an open-source software suite for creating, editing, composing, and converting bitmap images. It can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

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