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FFMPEG Command to Add Text Overlay on Video as Watermark With Custom Font & Colors in Terminal
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Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=C\\:/Windows/Fonts/consola.ttf:text='CODING SHIKSHA':fontcolor=yellow:fontsize=72:box=1:boxcolor=0x000000AA:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=(h-text_h)/2" -c:a copy output.mp4 ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=C\\:/Windows/Fonts/consola.ttf:text='CODING SHIKSHA':fontcolor=yellow:fontsize=72:shadowcolor=black:shadowx=2:shadowy=2:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=(h-text_h)/2" -c:a copy output.mp4
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you how to add
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text as a
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watermark so if you basically want to
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add some kind of text as an overlay
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inside your video so you can use ffmppg
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command for this so ffmpg is an
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open-source audio video processing
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library so we have this input file here
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what I need to do is that I need to add
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a watermark in the center of the video
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so what I will show right here I've
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given this command in the description of
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this video so let me just show you both
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the
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commands so this is little bit
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complicated command because we are we
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will be using some complex filters for
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this so let me just paste this command
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and then explain to you what is
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happening
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so first of all let me show you this
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command here
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so once I execute this command you will
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see this watermark will be added in the
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center of the video so you can see the
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command is executing it and after
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executing so just wait for it to
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finish so now you can see the command is
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finished if I try to open the output
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video you will
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see the watermark text which is in
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coding this
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is exactly added in the center of the
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screen as a watermark and it is
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appearing in yellow color you can even
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manipulate which font that you want to
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use you can even change the color as
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well and you can even change the size of
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the text as well such as watermark you
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can even control the opacity as well so
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it's a very useful command because you
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don't need to use any kind of video
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editor for this you can easily execute
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this command if you are having ffmppg
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installed so let's suppose if I want to
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change the
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color using this command i can easily
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manipulate all these factors so let me
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first of all summarize you what this
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command does so ffmpg- i this is your
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input file input.mpp4 MP4 and then we
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are applying a series of video filters -
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VF and then first in double quotes we
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are drawing the text here draw text is
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equal to we are providing the font file
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so I am using the built-in font inside
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my system C windows fonts consola TTF
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you can even use a custom font as well
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and then we are providing the watermark
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text which is coding six and then the
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font size font color is equal to yellow
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font size
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72 we are also providing this box you
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can see
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that and then we are not re-encoding the
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video so we are copying the encoding
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settings and this is your output file so
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now let me change some factors here uh
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let me change the to 7 96 the phone size
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let me change uh the color to blue
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instead of yellow and uh let me change
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the watermark text
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to sample
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watermark so I change
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this let me replace
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also the input file which
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is 1.mpp4
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so so now it is executing it so after
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executing it
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will actually add a watermark text right
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in the center of the screen having the
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blue
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color so it is completed here you will
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see that uh hello
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guys as you can see the watermark is
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successfully added so this is really
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useful command guys because if you have
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a series of videos that you need to add
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some kind of watermark then this command
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will be really useful i also have the
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second version of this command which
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essentially add some shadow as well so
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if you want to add some shadow you can
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use this command
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let me also execute this one as well
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just to show you what this command
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does so I have given all these commands
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in the description of this video so you
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can copy
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this so just wait the command is
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executing and
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uh so you can also see the speed of
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conversion is also very great it doesn't
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take too much time and you can
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see if I now open
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this it also adds some nice little
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shadow as well you can see that so thank
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