Suppose I have a video foo.mkv
and an image bar.png
(which happens to contains an alpha channel). I can blend this image over the video like this:
ffmpeg
-i foo.mkv
-i bar.png
-filter_complex "[0:v][1:v]overlay"
-vcodec libx264
myresult.mkv
(using multiple lines here for readability, normally this is one command line).
Now, besides the png image having an alpha channel of its own, I would also apply a custom overall transparency when blending this image over the video.
In the above example, the image would be visible 100% on top of the video — or at least the parts where its alpha channel is fully opaque.
Is there a way to add a custom overall opacity or transparency blend factor, something like opacity=0.5
or whatever, which would make the image only 50% visible?
I think I got it:
ffmpeg
-i foo.mkv
-i bar.png
-filter_complex "[1:v]format=argb,geq=r='r(X,Y)':a='0.5*alpha(X,Y)'[zork];
[0:v][zork]overlay"
-vcodec libx264
myresult.mkv
Where 0.5
is the opacity factor. I'm including format=argb
so it also works with overlay images that don't have an alpha channel of themselves.