I'm trying to create a transparent box with some text in it and then overlay that onto a (bigger) existing video.
I know I can do the text directly over the video, but I need the text bounded inside an invisible box.
My problem is that the transparent box ( color=#00000000:size=400x100 ) causes the text that I put in it to be transparent too, no matter what fontcolor or shadowcolor or boxcolor (with opaque alpha) I try to give it. Is this a bug or am I doing it wrong (TM)? Is there an alternative way?
ffmpeg \
-i "capture2.mkv" -t 5 \
-filter_complex "
color=Blue:size=400x100 [canvas];
[canvas]drawtext='
:fontcolor=Red
:fontsize=30
:fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf
:text=Header blabla (long text should be clipped)
' [text];
[0:v][text] overlay=
" -strict -2 -y output.mkv
The above works fine: blue box with red text on it. But as soon as I try to make the blue box transparent, the text starts fading too. The 2nd screenshot shows [email protected]
Complete output:
ffmpeg version 2.4.6 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built on Feb 1 2015 02:48:47 with gcc 4.9.2 (GCC) 20141101 (Red Hat 4.9.2-1)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=x86_64 --optflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic' --enable-bzlib --disable-crystalhd --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libass --enable-libcdio --enable-libdc1394 --disable-indev=jack --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-openal --enable-opencl --enable-libopencv --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-avfilter --enable-avresample --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 54. 7.100 / 54. 7.100
libavcodec 56. 1.100 / 56. 1.100
libavformat 56. 4.101 / 56. 4.101
libavdevice 56. 0.100 / 56. 0.100
libavfilter 5. 1.100 / 5. 1.100
libavresample 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
libswscale 3. 0.100 / 3. 0.100
libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100
libpostproc 53. 0.100 / 53. 0.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'capture2.mkv':
Metadata:
ENCODER : Lavf56.4.101
Duration: 00:58:11.53, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 764 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High 4:4:4 Predictive), yuv444p, 1024x768, SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 1k tbn, 60 tbc (default)
Metadata:
ENCODER : Lavc56.1.100 libx264
No pixel format specified, yuv444p for H.264 encoding chosen.
Use -pix_fmt yuv420p for compatibility with outdated media players.
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] using SAR=1/1
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.1 Cache64
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] profile High 4:4:4 Predictive, level 3.1, 4:4:4 8-bit
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] 264 - core 142 r2495 6a301b6 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2014 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=4 threads=3 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00
Output #0, matroska, to 'output.mkv':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf56.4.101
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (libx264) (H264 / 0x34363248), yuv444p, 1024x768 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], q=-1--1, 30 fps, 1k tbn, 30 tbc (default)
Metadata:
encoder : Lavc56.1.100 libx264
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 (h264) -> drawtext
drawtext -> Stream #0:0 (libx264)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame= 150 fps= 46 q=-1.0 Lsize= 41kB time=00:00:04.93 bitrate= 67.8kbits/s
video:39kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 3.940397%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] frame I:1 Avg QP:18.30 size: 30586
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] frame P:38 Avg QP:23.35 size: 71
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] frame B:111 Avg QP:34.33 size: 56
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] consecutive B-frames: 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 98.7%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] mb I I16..4: 35.1% 49.7% 15.2%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] mb P I16..4: 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% P16..4: 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:99.6%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] mb B I16..4: 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% B16..8: 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% direct: 0.0% skip:99.4% L0:58.3% L1:41.7% BI: 0.0%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] 8x8 transform intra:58.4% inter:46.2%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] coded y,u,v intra: 7.6% 7.0% 6.9% inter: 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] i16 v,h,dc,p: 76% 21% 4% 0%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 25% 12% 64% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 43% 20% 10% 4% 5% 5% 4% 4% 4%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] Weighted P-Frames: Y:0.0% UV:0.0%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] ref P L0: 41.0% 8.3% 42.0% 8.7%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] ref B L0: 51.9% 46.4% 1.6%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] ref B L1: 97.0% 3.0%
[libx264 @ 0x1508840] kb/s:63.22
