[geeks] Re: overlaying text onto video

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:12:36PM -0500, Dave Fischer wrote:
> mrbill at mrbill.net writes:
> 
> >I need to overlay a copyright notice on some video footage of a yet-to-be-
> >released film.  I can get the film into any format desired (right now its 
> >MPEG-1 ripped from VCD, ripped from VHS), but I can do raw AVI, MPEG-2, 
> >Quicktime, etc).
> 
> This isn't a sane approach, but I'd use mpeg_play to split it into
> one jpg file per frame, then add the text with ghostscript, and use
> ppmtompeg to stuff it back into an mpeg.

That's almost the way I'd do it.  Except, I might consider using either
a custom program to do the overlays (been meaning to learn how to write
software to use freetype anyway), or else figure out how to write a
cinepaint script for the task.

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