Something I've been working on lately to help with generating some of the common ffmpeg commands:

https://alfg.github.io/ffmpeg-commander/

Hoping to cover more options soon.

Friend, let me introduce you to the horrorshow that is GNU autotools.

imagemagick is close for me, but I do use ffmpeg and magick often, but as others have said feel as though I have to relearn each as soon as I have do something nonbasic.

Idk, I’ve used regex before.