FFmpeg overlay two videos, one input with transparency

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Published on 2014-08-25T09:45:42Z Indexed on 2014/08/25 10:22 UTC
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I am trying to create a karaoke from a CD+G file (converted to AVI using FFmpeg) and add a video as a background of the lyrics.

Here's a screenshot of a the output from CD+G conversion, for simplicity let's call this lyrics.avi http://imgur.com/wUwHUhV

Now a have this video.mp4 file that I'd like to put behind this lyrics.avi

Here's a sample of what I'm trying to achieve http://imgur.com/8GuWXtQ I'm sure most of you are familiar with karaoke.

I haven't used FFmpeg much and I'm not really sure if what I want to achieve is possible with FFmpeg.

  1. Is it possible to overlay two videos, and add a transparency to one of the videos? In this case the colour black?
  2. How can I set the offset time of the lyrics.avi?

Here's the command the I've tried so far:

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i lyrics.avi -filter_complex "nullsrc=size=854x480 [base]; [0:v] setpts=PTS-STARTPTS, scale=854x480 [upperleft]; [1:v] setpts=PTS-STARTPTS, scale=854x200 [bottomleft]; [base][upperleft] overlay=shortest=1 [tmp1]; [tmp1][bottomleft] overlay=shortest=1:y=280" -c:v libx264 -y karaoke.mp4

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