Add text overlays to videos

How it works

What it covers

• Add simple text overlays
• Create styled captions with backgrounds
• Position text with alignment options
• Crop a rectangular region from a video

What it uses

Install

terminal

$pip install pixeltable

Pixeltable calls

pxt.create_table()insert()add_computed_column()

A look at the code

# Add a simple watermark in the corner
videos.add_computed_column(
    watermarked=videos.video.overlay_text(
        'My Brand',
        font_size=24,
        color='white',
        opacity=0.7,
        horizontal_align='right',
        horizontal_margin=20,
        vertical_align='top',
        vertical_margin=20,
    )
)

One cell of the notebook, copied as it is. Open it in Colab for the rest.

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