5 FFmpeg automations to run inside Make

These are five Make scenarios built on the official FFmpeg Micro app — the same kind of drag-and-drop module you'd use for Gmail or Sheets, just for FFmpeg operations like transcoding, watermarking, subtitle burn-in, and parallel render fan-out.

Each scenario is a free Make template. Click the install link, pick your Google Drive (or Sheets) connection in the wizard, point at your folders, and run. No JSON to paste, no blueprint to import, no servers to set up. FFmpeg runs in our cloud — your Make scenario sends URLs, gets finished videos back.

Before you install

Three things in place and you can install any of the five scenarios:

• 🔧 A Make account — sign up free, free tier is fine for testing all five.
• 🔑 An FFmpeg Micro API key — sign up free, 100 minutes/month, no credit card.
• 📂 The FFmpeg Micro app installed in Make — when you click an install link below, Make will prompt you to add the connection if you don't have it yet.

Cost

Free on both sides, no credit card on either:

• • Make Free: 1,000 ops/month + 2 active scenarios. The 5 scenarios here range from 2 to 19 modules — plenty of headroom to test all of them.
• • FFmpeg Micro Free: 100 video-minutes/month, billed per transcode rounded up (a 30s clip = 1 minute, a 61s clip = 2). Roughly 100 short clips/month.
• • Need more? FFmpeg Micro pricing goes up to 12,000 min/month at $89.

Related training

• • FFmpeg with n8n cloud: same idea, n8n instead of Make.
• • Watermark a video (Bash + FFmpeg Micro): single-purpose bash version of the watermarking pattern used in Scenario 1.
• • FFmpeg Micro API docs: every operation the Make app exposes is also a plain HTTP endpoint if you want to skip Make entirely.