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Add an image overlay in front of video using ffmpeg
This is an addition to the excellent answer by PTS and an answer for chovy. If you want to place the overlay at the lower right corner, FFMPEG can calculate that for you very easily.
Use the modified ...
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Adobe Premiere Pro CC - Crop a video and export at the exact cropped size
I think I've found the easiest way!
Just crop the area you want.
Go to the Export window without worrying about the black margins showing.
Set the final resolution and export settings as you would ...
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Premiere distorts picture while paused
According to Adobe, it's a bug. Until Adobe fixes this bug with an update, the workaround is to switch off GPU acceleration in Project Settings.
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Extract person from video
If you have a frame where the person does not exist, you can use a tool called a difference matte. (You'll need to scroll down to the section titled "Difference Matte Effect" for a description.) It ...
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Good learning resources for 'non-technical' aspects of filmmaking
Do you realize people go through years of academical studies or expensive courses at private universities to learn all that? It's certainly not something you're going to master by watching a few ...
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How to annotate specific parts of video in pre-production?
Disclaimer: You didn't specify what program you are working with, so I assume you are using the current version of Premiere Pro.
Assembly Workflow
Your workflow is a common one for beginners. Back ...
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How was this slow motion effect created? what programs can do this?
There are methods to generate frames in between frames, mostly giving you mixed results.
For one, the plugin "twixtor" (~330$) actually does a somewhat decent job at assuming missing frames, so much ...
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Removing Metadata Title in mp4 files
You can try FFMpeg. There are examples showing how to strip all metadata and removing just a single item isn't much different.
Try
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -metadata title= -c:v copy -c:a copy out.mp4
This ...
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Render failed - Davinci Resolve 16
In the 'Deliver' panel, under the Advanced Settings, try enabling/ticking “Use render cached images”.
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Good open source Video Editors?
If you are really adventurous why not give Blender a go? It is a 3D animation and compositing/tracking application. It is completely free and open (FLOSS) as well as being totally system agnostic. Run ...
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How to precisely synchronise an audio and video track from separate devices?
First off, if you have audio with your video (that you want to replace with your high-quality audio recording), then step #1 is to nudge the Zoom audio track to line up the impulse of the clap with ...
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Extract person from video
Final Cut Pro X has a plugin called Pro Removal that can remove moving things from the scene on fixed camera shots.
Also there is a tutorial for After Effects that shows how remove objects from scene ...
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Creating a one-off non-pro video to document a project - what software would be sensible?
This question gets asked quite frequently, and normally the answer is to pick one from this list. But since you very clearly defined what you are looking for in the editing software, I think I can ...
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Software for video cut automation / scripting
MoviePy looks less intimidating than other scripting languages. It may be easier to script your time tag cutting tool with it.
http://zulko.github.io/moviepy/
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Interpreting 60fps to 24fps in Premiere Pro
I figured out the problem. My shutter speed was set too low. Turns out it needs to be double the frame rate in order to achieve a smooth motion when interpreted to 24 fps. Should have thought of that ...
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What factors influence how much of an online video people will watch?
There could be any number of factors as to why people quit watching a video, but if you want to entice them to stick around, there are a few tricks.
Yes, "content is king," but CONTEXT is arguably ...
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In Premiere, is there an easy to way to extract sequences into new projects?
There are two ways to do this; since they both have their merits, I'll include both of them.
1. The Project Manager
Open File → Project Manager. It's pretty straightforward, just select the ...
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How to reduce eye strain when video editing?
First, I have never seen anyone use one of those goggles; if you ask me, that's utter nonsense, but go ahead and do your own research. Or just try them, 18 $ is not that much, and you can always ...
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Editing with music: what workflow produces the best results?
Sooner or later you have to look at your video and make choices. A term of the art is to "create video selects". And the organizational technique used in Premiere Pro is called a "stacked timeline" ...
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What software is used in Hollywood for special effects and video editing
For video editing the Hollywood standard is AVID, however smaller production houses and indie filmmakers tend to use Adobe Premiere. The nice thing about Premiere, in your case, is that it dynamic ...
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How can I specify time for text titles in iMovie for iOS
If you click on the "?" in the upper right, you'll get yellow markers that show help. One of them is "Learn More" where it brings up the user manual and a search field. When I type "titles" into the ...
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How do I batch replace video clips in Premiere to graded copies? (from Da Vinci Resolve)
Method 1
First, with the Premiere project closed, move the original files that you're editing with to a new folder or other location. Open your project and it will warn you of missing files. Click the ...
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Add a timestamp to a video file?
You can use FFmpeg, a free command-line tool, to do this.
Basic command is
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=font.ttf:
fontsize=45:fontcolor=white:
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Increasing Overall Audio level
Yes. You can use FFmpeg, a free command-line tool, like so:
ffmpeg -i video.wmv -c:v copy -af dynaudnorm out.wmv
dynaudnorm is a dynamic audio normalizer, which will maintain the original range ...
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What part of this video is good and how to improve it?
Since you asked for general feedback, here's a few things I noticed:
0:00 The logo animation is too long in my opinion, especially since the video itself isn't that long.
0:12 Make the text much ...
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Technical Term for "side by side scene editing"?
What you are describing is called a "ripple edit" (because the adjustment you make to the clip ripples through the rest of the timeline that comes after it). It may also be called something like "...
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Positioning subtitles in Premiere Pro CC
Do the math
If you want to align your text using percentage offsets or any other 'round' number in pixels, you just need to perform some simple calculations. For example, 10% from the bottom of a ...
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How to merge videos side by side if one of them is cropped
Use
ffmpeg -i L.MOV -i R.MOV -filter_complex '[0:v]crop=in_w-28:in_h-28,scale=640:480,setsar=1,pad=iw*2:ih[int];[int][1:v]overlay=W/2:0[vid]' -map [vid] -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset veryfast LR.MOV
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How to remove background from video without using green screen
Looking at your first example, I woul guess green screen, and not a particularly good one. It looks like they really need to increase the spill suppression, judging by the green spill evident on the ...
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What free video editing software is capable of moving/rotating a sprite atop video?
A great tool for this is Davinci Resolve: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve. It is very capable, has an excellent free version and can easily accomplish the desired tasks.
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