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I am currently working with the drawtext filter. So far I have only been successful with drawtext option configurations to use the right font and place the text horizontally centered. How could i get drawtext to display text on a video as shown below?
ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i "/media/test/test.mp4" -vf drawtext="fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/open-sans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf:text='Title of this Video':x=(w-tw)/2:y=(h-th)/2" /media/test_edited.mp4"
Use drawbox for the box, and drawtext for the text.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf \
"format=yuv444p, \
drawbox=y=ih/PHI:[email protected]:width=iw:height=48:t=fill, \
drawtext=fontfile=OpenSans-Regular.ttf:text='Title of this Video':fontcolor=white:fontsize=24:x=(w-tw)/2:y=(h/PHI)+th, \
format=yuv420p" \
-c:v libx264 -c:a copy -movflags +faststart output.mp4
drawtext has a box option, but as far as I can tell it can't be an arbitrary width and is relative to the text size, so that is why drawbox is used instead.
The format filter is used to improve the color of the drawbox area; otherwise, depending on your input and output formats, the area could look de-saturated or monochrome. The format filter is then used again to ensure that the pixel format of the output file is compatible with all players.
The audio is being stream copied in this example because you may not want to needlessly re-encode it.
Old ffmpeg users will have to use t=max instead of t=fill.
snapchat timer. For example, I did some testing and ffmpeg contains a testsrc video source that contains a timer: ffplay -f lavfi -i testsrc. The digit 0 of the initial timer has a 29x52 pixels size and its postion from the top -left corner is 256 pixels horizontally and 94 pixels vertical. I can crop the area of one digit like this ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc -vf crop=29:52:256:94 -t 10 timer1.mp4
May 16, 2015 at 7:43
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May 16, 2015 at 7:57
ffmpeg -i C:\Users\Developer_2\Videos\2.mkv -vf drawtext="fontfile=C\:/Regular.ttf: text='apcis.tmou.org': fontcolor=white: fontsize=24: box=1: bo[email protected]: x=w-tw:y=h-th" C:\inetpub\wwwroot\videos\1.mp4
