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• Concatenate multiple videos with a black screen interval into one video

  21 March 2016, by AHC

  I am using ffmpeg to join a bunch of videos together.
  I am using the classic join ffmpeg code:
  

  ffmpeg -f concat -i joinlist.txt -c copy joinedfile.mp4

  but the problem is that the videos are of different formats, encodings, but the same size: all 640x480. I want to join them all and put a black screen video with no sound every other video:

  video1 + black_screen_video + video2 + black_screen_video + video3 ...

  I generated a black screen video of 2 seconds duration using:

  ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=c=black:s=640x480:d=2 black_screen_video.mp4

  so all of the videos are of the same size: 640x480, and 25 fps but different codecs. The videos have sound, except for the black screen video.
  I can’t do anything manual, because the number of videos are around several hundred. So it has got to be an automatic way to do all this.

  When I joined them together using the above code, the resulting video does not play correctly at all.

  I know that I have to re-encode them, but how to do this to all these videos at once, with one line of code?

  Update:
  I am already using with success this code to join them together, but only three, if I have more than one hundred, it is time consuming to write down one by one:

  ffmpeg -i vid1.avi -i vid2.avi -i vid3.avi -filter_complex "[0:v:0] [0:a:0] [1:v:0] [1:a:0] [2:v:0] [2:a:0] concat=n=3:v=1:a=1 [v] [a]" -map "[v]" -map "[a]" output.mp4

  but this is joining only the videos, not looping the black screen video. When I do with black screen, ffmpeg gives me stream matching errors.

• ffmpeg auto crop black frame and watermark

  4 June 2018, by rbarab

  We are processing short videos. Most of them are 640x480, recorded by mobile. Many of them have a black frame on left and right.
  I would like to watermark the videos and currently using this command.

  ffmpeg -i IN.mp4 -i WATERMARK.png -filter_complex "overlay=main_w-overlay_w-10:main_h-overlay_h-10" OUT.mp4

  The problem is that if there is a frame, part of the watermark goes on the frame and only a part is on the actual content. Would like to place the watermark on the bottom right of the actual content.

  Are any of these possible, or any other ideas?

  a, Dynamically detect the black frames and adjust the watermark position accordingly.

  b, Crop the black frame and watermark the content correctly in the same step.

  Thanks a lot for your help!

• ffmpeg how to remove black borders when resizing an image

  3 June 2021, by Mapg

  I am creating some thumbnails using FFmpeg and I see that some black borders are created when I resize them.

  


  I guess this is happening because the video source dimension doesn't match exactly the target dimension, so FFmpeg fills out the blank space with this black color.

  


  My question is ...

  


  Can I change this "black color" used by FFmpeg by default so I can match these extra borders added with the background of my application?

  


  If this is not possible ...

  


  Can I convert these black borders to a transparent area so I can create a PNG to match my background which has a different color (a kind of light green)

  


  I have attached an example where you will see two black pixels height in the bottom zone of the picture.

  


  This is what I want to convert to transparent or being able to choose my own color.

  


  Any idea to solve this issue will be very helpful for me?

  


  Thank you very much in advance!

  


  Mapg