sorry to make this topic drag on for so long, but i can tell i'm almost there. i figured out how to include the absolute path in the code, so ffmpeg was able to locate the file and says that it's converted it into webm. how do i then DOWNLOAD and GET the webm file? do i run another line of code to extract it or something else?

garfieldfromgarfield said:
how do i then DOWNLOAD and GET the webm file?

You mean to tell me you don't see the file, right there, next to the mp4...?

Not trying to sound condescending but, I'm having a hard time understanding what's hard to understand about ffmpeg's operation... Unless MacOS is doing something stupid and forcing it to output the file somewhere else you're not paying attention to in Finder. (is that what the file manager is called in MacOS?)