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I am trying to move a shape (an image) over a background image to each corner. Here is the video example I generated with ffmpeg.

As you can see from the example, at the end of the video the shape is not positioned on the top right corner as it should be:

last frame shape positionning issue

Here is the ffmpeg command I use:

ffmpeg -i background.jpeg -loop 1 -i logo.png -filter_complex "[0]scale=300:250[s0];[1]format=gbrap[s4];[s0][s4]overlay=x=if(between(t\\,0.0\\,0.8)\\,lerp(0.0\\,240.0\\,round((t-0.0)/0.8*100)/100)\\,if(between(t\\,0.8\\,2.2)\\,lerp(240.0\\,0.0\\,round((t-0.8)/1.4*100)/100)\\,if(between(t\\,2.2\\,3.0)\\,lerp(0.0\\,240.0\\,round((t-2.2)/0.8*100)/100)))):y=if(between(t\\,0.0\\,0.8)\\,lerp(0.0\\,200.0\\,round((t-0.0)/0.8*100)/100)\\,if(between(t\\,0.8\\,2.2)\\,lerp(200.0\\,200.0\\,round((t-0.8)/1.4*100)/100)\\,if(between(t\\,2.2\\,3.0)\\,lerp(200.0\\,0.0\\,round((t-2.2)/0.8*100)/100))))[s5]" -map "[s5]" -c:v libx264 -crf 0 -pix_fmt yuv420p -t 3.0 video.mp4 
  • video is 300x250
  • logo.png is the blue shape (width=60px, height=50px)
  • the coordinates are set as follow: 0s: x=0,y=0 / 0.8s: x=240px,y=200px / 2.2s: x=0,y=200px / 3s: x=240px,y=0

I am using lerp to retrieve the right position depending on the current time t. It seems like the last frames are not played.

I tried to:

  • set a framerate (30 & 100) to the logo.png input,
  • round the value given by lerp,
  • use setpts to define a number of frames.

But I do not understand the problem I am facing, could you help me?

UPDATE 1: If I extend the video duration to 4s, the shape position at 3s is the right one

UPDATE 2: I added -framerate 100 as option the logo.png input and fps=24 just after the scale filter. The problem is still present. I extracted every frame as png (as expected there are 72 frames) & 17 were generated between 2.2s & 3s.

UPDATE 3: The problem is resolved by settings a fps of 100. However the generated video file is too big. Is there any other way to get it to work at 24fps?

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Since your total duration is 3 seconds, there is no frame at 3 seconds. The last frame is at 3 seconds - 1/framerate seconds.

The default framerate of image inputs is 25, so you should interpolate to the final position at 2.96 seconds.

i.e.

if(between(t\\,2.2\\,3.0)\\, lerp(200.0\\,0.0\\,round((t-2.2)/0.76*100)/100))

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  • Thank you, that's working. Can you tell me why "The last frame is at 3 seconds - 1/framerate seconds"? (Is this a FFmpeg limitation?)
    – antoox
    Nov 2 at 18:41
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    No. Each frame has a presentation time and a duration. For 25 fps videos, duration is 1/25 = 40ms. If there was a frame at 3s, then total video duration would be 3s40ms.
    – Gyan
    Nov 3 at 3:47
  • oh that makes perfect sense! thank you
    – antoox
    Nov 3 at 8:50

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