Leonardo is a media conversion application that provides a graphical interface for converting audio and video files using FFmpeg. The software aims to simplify media conversion tasks with a straightforward desktop interface and is distributed as an AppImage with an installation script.
It requires FFmpeg installed on the system.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Convert audio and video files using FFmpeg.
- Simple graphical desktop interface.
- Distributed as an AppImage for easy portability.
- Designed to help prepare media files for workflows such as DaVinci Resolve.
- Presets for:
- DaVinci Resolve MOV workflow.
- YouTube H.264.
- OBS remux (fast, no re-encode).
- TikTok 9:16 vertical auto crop.
Website: github.com/RossContino1/Leonardo
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Developer: Ross Contino
License: MIT License

Leonardo is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Video Converters | |
|---|---|
| HandBrake | Multithreaded cross-platform media transcoding application |
| FFmpeg | Multimedia player, server and encoder |
| Shutter Encoder | Graphical frontend to FFmpeg with editing features |
| FastFlix | GUI for H.264, HEVC and AV1 hardware and software encoding |
| Videomass | Cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl |
| avconv | Part of libav-tools; fork of FFmpeg |
| VLC | Vdeo player which also converts multimedia to different formats |
| mpv | Cross-platform media player with video encoding support |
| MEncoder | MEncoder is included in MPlayer |
| FFQueue | Graphical frontend to FFmpeg written in C++ |
| transcode | Utility to encode raw video/audio streams |
| MystiQ | GUI for FFmpeg, a powerful media converter |
| Ciano | Easy way to convert your multimedia files to the most popular formats |
| Constrict | Compress videos to target sizes |
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