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I'm trying to achieve complex effect with ffmpeg, but I seem to be failing the syntax of -filter_complex somewhere.

The goal is to capture part of the screen (with UScreenCapture direct show device) where I display two images side by side (called [bg] and [key], or [rgb] and [alpha] in the filter chain). On the left is the image itself, on the right its alpha channel, shown in black and white. Then I want to compose that on top of another input (some video input from a file or other capture device... but a file in this case, called [video] in the filter chain).

To compose the three together, first I blend 'multiply' the alpha with the video, turning to black everything outside the white alpha(dumped into [out1]), and blend 'multiply' the image background with the negative alpha (dumped into [out2]). To end the chain I add the two outs with blend mode addition... and dump it to a pipe

Theoretically it should work but it keeps complaining about stream specifier 'alpha' matching no stream:

ffmpeg -v debug -f dshow -i video=UScreenCapture -i chroma.mp4 -filter_complex \
"[0:v]split[bg][key]; \
 [bg]crop=720:576:0:0, format=gbrap,setsar=0:1[rgb]; \
 [key]crop=720:576:720:0,format=gray8,setsar=0:1,scale=720:576[alpha]; \
 [1:v]scale=720:576,format=yuv420p,setsar=0:1[video]; \
 [alpha]negate[neg_alpha]; \
 [video][neg_alpha]blend=all_mode='multiply':all_opacity=1[masked_video]; \
 [rgb][alpha]blend=all_mode='multiply':all_opacity=1[masked_3d]; \
 [masked_video][masked_3d]blend=all_mode='addition':all_opacity=1[out]" \
-map "[out]"-c:v mpeg2video -f avi - | ffplay -
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  • You should trim your filtergraph, if possible, to keep only the minimum filters necessary for the problem to arise. You should also include the complete console output from your command.
    – llogan
    Commented Dec 2, 2014 at 18:22
  • Add a space before -c:v mpeg2video
    – user6898
    Commented Dec 6, 2014 at 10:54
  • Have you tested to see that this works?
    – Dr Mayhem ♦
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 9:00

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filgergraph as described can not work, you can not use [alpha] twice, you need to split it:

[0:v]split[bg][key]; [bg]crop=720:576:0:0, format=gbrap,setsar=0:1[rgb]; [key]crop=720:576:720:0,format=gray8,setsar=0:1,scale=720:576,split[alpha2][alpha]; [1:v]scale=720:576,format=yuv420p,setsar=0:1[video]; [alpha]negate[neg_alpha]; [video][neg_alpha]blend=all_mode='multiply':all_opacity=1[masked_video]; [rgb][alpha2]blend=all_mode='multiply':all_opacity=1[masked_3d]; [masked_video][masked_3d]blend=all_mode='addition':all_opacity=1

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