I accidentally enabled a datestamp "feature" on my camera and now all my videos have the date embedded.
What's the best way to remove those datestamps?
I'm editing a compilation of the videos with kdenlive, so I would only need to remove the datestamp from the parts of the videos I'm using or the final compilation, whatever gives best results.
Use ffmpeg (download a static build for your operating system) and its delogo filter, which will try to cover up a logo or watermark by interpolating neighboring pixels.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "delogo=x=100:y=100:w=150:h=20" output.mp4
Here, x and y specify the top left coordinates of the “masking” rectangle, and w/h specify its size. You can add the show=1 option to help locate that rectangle.
If you want to play with the filter values, you can use ffplay to directly show the result:
ffplay -f lavfi -i "movie=input.mp4,delogo=x=100:y=100:w=150:h=20:show=1"
