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  • combining two .mov files to play along side of one another

    Posted by Martin Edwards on July 30, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    I’m trying to get two .mov files to play in unison with each other side by side and also have a caption at the bottom of each file, anyone any ideas.

    I have it installed on windows 7 and an going through the command line.

    I’m also new at this so any answers will need to be explained in detail

    here is what I have already

    ffmpeg -i orig.mov -an -vcodec v210 -vf “pad=2*iw+30:ih+20:10:10:blue [orig]; movie=2a.mov [new] ; [orig][new] overlay=740:10 [overlay]; [overlay] drawtext=fontfile=C:/windows/fonts/FreeSerif.ttf:fontsize=32:fontcolor=white@0.3:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.3:text=orig.mov:x=300:y=530 [text1]; [text1] draw text=fontfile=C:/windows/fonts/FreeSerif.ttf:fontsize=32:fontcolor=white@0.3:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.3:text=2a.mov:x=1020:y=530 [text2] ; [text2] yadif=0:-1:0 [out]” -sameq -vcodec v210 2a_sbs.mov

    but i’m getting an error:

    No such filter: ‘drawtext’
    Error opening filters!

    cheers

    Michael Rampe replied 14 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Reuben Martin

    August 2, 2012 at 1:28 am

    First check that the build you are using supports that filter.

    To get a listing of available filters:
    ffmpeg -filters

  • Michael Rampe

    August 2, 2012 at 6:15 am

    Good advice. It is also important to know that the filter in question (drawtext) has a dependency of libfreetype which you must install first and the enable in FFmpeg by using –enable-libfreetype.

    Michael

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