https://github.com/erkaman/ffmpeg-add-text-to-video-tutorial

Tutorial that shows how to add text to a video file with ffmpeg
https://github.com/erkaman/ffmpeg-add-text-to-video-tutorial

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Tutorial that shows how to add text to a video file with ffmpeg

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/erkaman/ffmpeg-add-text-to-video-tutorial
• Owner: Erkaman
• Created: 2018-04-30T10:58:19.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-04-30T10:59:07.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-13T03:05:25.004Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: ffmpeg, tutorial
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• Size: 8.5 MB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Adding Text to a Video File with ffmpeg

By burning text subtitles into a video, we can use ffmpeg as a quick and dirty way

of adding text to a video. Let us say we want to add text to the video `original.mp4`, which

is rendered a `.gif` below

![Animated](gifs/original.gif)

Then we simply specify a subtitle file of the format `.ass`(Advanced Substation Alpha), 

and feed it to ffmpeg as follows:

```

ffmpeg -y -i original.mp4 -vf subtitles=text.ass original_with_subs.mp4

```

and this gives us a video with text added:

![Animated](gifs/original_with_subs.gif)

The file `text.ass` can be found in the repo, and it contains explanatory comments. The

specification of the subtitle format can be found [here](https://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/subtitles/ssa.html).