diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.16.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.16.ebuild
index 5d323c5f83285..99d71aa3ac8e8 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.16.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.16.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( <dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-13:= )
 	embree? ( media-libs/embree:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),lame(-),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? ( <media-video/ffmpeg-8:=[encode(+),lame(-),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid] )
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0=[threads] )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp:=[cxx] )
 	gnome? ( gui-libs/libdecor )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.4.3.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.4.3.ebuild
index bfd4607ee1dab..a6193903dcf62 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.4.3.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.4.3.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2207
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( media-libs/embree:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),lame(-),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? ( <media-video/ffmpeg-8:=[encode(+),lame(-),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid] )
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0=[threads] )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp[cxx] )
 	gnome? ( gui-libs/libdecor )