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• Can FFMPEG be used to change the transparency of a single PNG ?

  19 juillet 2020, par Chameleon

  I know that FFMPEG can manipulate transparency using fade in/fade out over a series of frames. I just haven't found a way to generate a png with a specified transparency setting.

  


  I am in the process of creating a lot (20 in first set) of procedurally-generated videos. Each video requires several starts and stops, where with each stop, a png overlay describing what is seen will be displayed for several (actual number TBD, and may vary) frames. I'd like each overlay to fade in over x frames, display for y frames at full opacity and then fade out over y frames. The documentation on FFMPEG really sucks at explaining fade effects, and no one I've found showing usage actually explains what all of the parameters do.

  


  The original sources for the videos are CGI png frames with a transparent background. I will be making the descriptive overlays with transparent backgrounds (same resolution as the CGI frames) - I'm really hoping to not have to manually save each overlay (8 overlays per video at a minimum) with 4 to 6 (or more) transparency settings - The company is being real indecisive as to the length of the fade in/out or the "hang time" of the descriptive overlays.

  


  I have already created a Python script that uses FFMPEG to place overlays on specific frames, then uses FFMPEG to stitch all frames into a single video, adds a background to the video and then places the company's watermark on the video. It already manages the key frames and what images should be overlaid (and for how many frames). It is working well, but the company doesn't like the lack of fade. I already have the framework in place to manage the fade in/out duration (I'm just missing the answer to this question). I created the script because I have no doubt that I'll have to generate the final output on the first couple of videos a number of times to appease the stakeholders.

  


  I'm really hoping to find a fairly easy way to hand FFMPEG a png with a transparent background and have FFMPEG hand me a copy of the image whose non-transparent part is now "x percent" transparent (or "y percent" opaque). I know from failed attempts that FFMPEG doesn't choke trying to make a region more than 100% transparent.

  


  It's a real pain to get approval to install new software on the workstation, so I'm not actually interested in any suggestion that doesn't use FFMPEG or a pretty vanilla Python installation. - It's not that the other software might not be useful, it just means that if other software is needed, I'll have to manually create the frames.

  


• What are all the command `options` to execute with ?

  25 janvier 2023, par Phil Lucks

  I'd like to be able to compress the video in a way to help improve upload times.

  


  In reading the docs for FFMpeg Kit, using React Native, there is a basic execute command string of '-i file1.mp4 -c:v mpeg4 file2.mp4'... I can guess at what some of this means, in terms of input & output file names based on the ffMPEG docs, however, some of these options I am not sure of.

  


  Like why is there a -i flag prefix ? Is this "input" ?
Why is there -c:v ? Is this "convert video" ?
What if I want to reduce frame rate, or change size of video ?

  


  The TS def is just a string...

  


  Is there a good place to understand what the official docs options map to the strings ? I think

  


• Can you call out to FFMPEG in a Firebase Cloud Function

  27 juillet 2024, par Dave Parks

  Per the Firebase Cloud Functions documentation, you can leverage ImageMagick from within a cloud function : https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/use-cases

  



  Is it possible do something similar but call out to FFMPEG instead of ImageMagick ? While thumbnailing images is great, I'd also like the capability to append incoming images to a video file stored out on Firebase Storage.