Given a directory full of video files, strip all metadata from the videos using ffmpeg.

strip-video-metadata.sh

#!/usr/bin/bash
#
# This script will remove the metata from all video files in the given
# directory.
#
# @requires	ffmpeg
# @usage	./strip-video-metadata.sh </path/to/folder>

# Loop through all files in the directory
for f in "$1"/*
do
  # Use ffmpeg to remove all metadata from the file and save the output to a new file
  ffmpeg -i "$f" -map_metadata -1 -c:v copy -c:a copy "${f%.*}-temp.${f##*.}"

  # Move the new file to replace the original file
  mv "${f%.*}-temp.${f##*.}" "$f"
done