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Timecode burn with ffmpeg
# Timecode burn with ffmpeg
# ffmpeg must be configured with --enable-libfreetype
# box=1 - tells ffmpeg to draw a box around the text
# boxcolor - format is 0xRRGGBB[AA]
ffmpeg -i video.mov -vcodec libx264 -cmp 22 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=DroidSansMono.ttf: timecode='09\:57\:00\:00': r=23.976: x=(w-tw)/2: y=h-(2*lh): fontcolor=white: box=1: boxcolor=0x00000099" -y output.mov
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kcvinker commented Nov 9, 2020

Thanks, this code worked. What is this "-cmp 22" is for ? I can burn timecode without that thing.

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@vinodvinu If I remember correctly that is a quality setting for h264 encoding so no, you don't need it to burn timecode.

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