[FFmpeg-user] filters zoompan and crop

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/29/18, Jim DeLaHunt <list+ffmpeg-user at jdlh.com> wrote:
> On 2018-10-26 11:57, S Andreason wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does zoompan not work outside the range 1 .. 8?
>>
> Nearly correct. The zoompan filter accepts values for the zoom parameter
> between 1 and 10. Any values below 1.0 are set to 1; any values greater
> than 10.0 are set to 10.
>
> Also, it's helpful to be very clear about the conceptual model the
> zoompan filter uses. The filter starts with an input image (or frame of
> an input video). It sets up a coordinate system based on this image:
> origin at top-left, with +x to the right and +y downwards.  A zoom
> argument of /k/ is interpreted as if the input image was drawn /k /times
> its original size, or equivalently, that the output image is 1//k/ the
> size of the input image. The x and y arguments to the zoompan filter are
> interpreted in this coordinate system, but clipped so that the output
> image (after zoom adjustment) will stay completely within the input image.
>
> The core motivation for the filter seems to be implementing what some
> call the "Ken Burns effect", making a video image which pans over an
> input image, and zooms in to only show part of the image at a time. It
> is not well-suited to general transformations, given its limitations on
> zoom level, its refusal to pan beyond the boundary of the input image,
> and the absence of a rotation capability or generalised affine
> coordinate transformations.
>
>> I want to generate an overlay to zoom in, have the input png start
>> small, and grow to half the video size, like from 20 to 320 in width.
>> Starting the zoompan at z=0.1 does not seem to work.
> Take a look at the *pad* filter <http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#pad>.
> That generates an output frame which consists of an input frame with
> padding around it.
>> Also if the first filter was successful, I need to crop it so that it
>> grows over time. I am having trouble getting crop to adjust based on
>> the frame number. From my testing it seems n in this case starts at 0
>> when the enable between starts, instead of the output video frame
>> number like the other filters I have been using.
> I'm not sure I follow what you mean by "when the enable between starts".
> My experience with the *zoompan* filter is that the /in/ parameter
> (input frame number) is 2 for the first frame, rather than 0 as is usual
> for ffmpeg. I think that this is partly a bug (see
> <https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7242>). Partly this appears to be a
> design decision by the original developer, to use cardinal numbers
> instead of ordinal numbers.

That bug have long be fixed in master branch. I just closed it.

>> Is there a manual or wiki with more information then at
>> https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html ?
> If you want to do serious work with the zoompan filter, my experience is
> that the documentation isn't adequate, and you need to read the source
> code in ffmpeg/libavfilter/vf_zoompan.c, lines 153-250, function
> output_single_frame().
>> Thank you
>>
> I hope this is helpful for you.
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