**Michael W Lucas** @mwlucas · 2018-04-12T18:00:43Z

Michael W Lucas @mwlucas

If I was to video record myself on my webcam, how would I add opening and closing text?

(Pondering doing a live reading of the first chapter of #edmastery in the style of a political demagogue.)

The search engines are full of suggestions for complicated cases. Is this one of those "buy the whole damn product for one thing" cases?

Thinking about it, though: I could use hand-written signs going in and out. That amuse me.

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**[tj]** @_tj@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 18:19

**[tj]** @_tj@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 18:19

@mwlucas Record on webcam, make png with text. Use ffmepg to turn png into a video segment. Use ffmpeg to splice together all segments

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 19:30

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 19:30

@_tj @mwlucas Then write an ffmpeg Mastery book for the rest of us.

**[tj]** @_tj@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 19:44

**[tj]** @_tj@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 19:44

@edavies @mwlucas I think this page does a lot of the work towards that goal

https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 21:34

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 21:34

@_tj @mwlucas Thanks, that looks useful - just read a few pages and bookmarked for next time I want to do anything with video.

**pfm** @pfm · Apr 12, 2018, 18:21

**pfm** @pfm · Apr 12, 2018, 18:21

@mwlucas
You could use Star Wars-like effect of text scrolling into view but with a dot matrix printer. And of course the text would be edited with ed(1).

**η (old account)** @eta@writing.exchange · Apr 12, 2018, 18:40

**η (old account)** @eta@writing.exchange · Apr 12, 2018, 18:40

@mwlucas Try kdenlive, or blender (though blender is a beast that requires a good manual to use as a video editor properly...)? Alternatively, that hand-written sign thing sounds cool as well!

**Will** @bitgeist@unixcorn.xyz · Apr 12, 2018, 19:38

**Will** @bitgeist@unixcorn.xyz · Apr 12, 2018, 19:38

@mwlucas What Platform are you using? Open Broadcaster Studio is nice.

**Michael W Lucas** @mwlucas · Apr 12, 2018, 20:39

**Michael W Lucas** @mwlucas · Apr 12, 2018, 20:39

@bitgeist I have no platform. I've never recorded a video in my life. I'm starting from Windows and FreeBSD workstations.

**Will** @bitgeist@unixcorn.xyz · Apr 13, 2018, 01:14

**Will** @bitgeist@unixcorn.xyz · Apr 13, 2018, 01:14

@mwlucas It looks like it is in FreeBSD ports, but I’ve only ever run it under OSX and Windows. It is happy to record to a file, but check the default recording format first.