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Add a motion-tracked text to input.mp4 Text: Glass dropper
Several videos, several effects, one ask
Put your clips in the folder, mention them with @, and ask for everything at once. Claude runs one tested script after another on each clip, then joins them.
Add a motion-tracked text to @clip1.mp4, put a sale badge on @clip2.mp4, give @clip3.mp4 a VHS look, then join all three with crossfades.
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| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
TEXT | Glass dropper | The words on the tag. |
TARGET | (0.40, 0.325, 0.60, 0.405) | Box round the thing to follow in the first frame, as shares of the frame (x0, y0, x1, y1). |
START | 0.5 | Second the tag appears. |
OFFSET | (0.13, 0.07) | Where the tag sits relative to the tracked point, as shares of the frame width and height. |
SMOOTH | 5 | Frames averaged to take the jitter out of the track. |
COLOR | (255, 214, 0) | Tag, line and dot color. |
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Add a motion-tracked label to input.mp4 (540x960). Use OpenCV's CSRT tracker (opencv-python-headless) to follow the bottle's metal dropper collar: in the first frame it sits in the box from 40% to 60% across and 32.5% to 40.5% down. Track its center through every frame and smooth the path with a 5-frame moving average. From 0.5 seconds on, draw on each frame, at the tracked point: a yellow (255, 214, 0) dot 1.6% of the frame width in radius with a 3-pixel dark (20, 16, 28) rim; a yellow line 0.6% of the width thick from the dot to a point 13% of the width right and 7% of the height down; and there a yellow (255, 214, 0) pill-shaped tag (fully rounded ends) with its left edge on that point and its vertical center level with it, reading "Glass dropper" in dark (20, 16, 28) bold text 4.5% of the frame width tall, with padding of 60% of the text height. Over the first 0.35 seconds (0.5 to 0.85s) the dot grows from nothing, the line draws out from the dot and the tag fades in, all with an ease-out; after that everything stays locked to the tracked point to the end. Nothing is drawn before 0.5 seconds. Use Python with OpenCV for the tracking and Pillow to draw the dot, line, tag and its text, and ffmpeg to put them on the video (don't rely on ffmpeg's drawtext filter), keep the audio, and save it as output.mp4.Run it without Claude
This is the exact script we tested. Save it as motion-tracked-text.py and run:
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Motion-tracked text: a yellow "Glass dropper" tag stays pinned to the bottle's dropper collar as the camera moves.
Usage: python3 motion-tracked-text.py input.mp4 output.mp4
Needs ffmpeg, OpenCV, numpy and Pillow (pip install opencv-python-headless numpy pillow).
"""
import json
import math
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import cv2
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
TEXT = "Glass dropper"
TARGET = (0.40, 0.325, 0.60, 0.405) # box round the thing to follow in the first frame (x0, y0, x1, y1, 0-1)
START = 0.5 # second the tag appears
POP = 0.35 # seconds the dot, line and tag take to come in
OFFSET = (0.13, 0.07) # tag's left edge and center, from the tracked point (shares of width, height)
SMOOTH = 5 # frames averaged to take the jitter out of the track
COLOR = (255, 214, 0) # tag and dot color
SIZE = 0.045 # text height as a share of the frame width
FONTS = ["/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Bold.ttf", # macOS
"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf", # Linux
"C:/Windows/Fonts/arialbd.ttf"] # Windows
FONT_FILE = next((f for f in FONTS if Path(f).exists()), None) or sys.exit("No bold font found: add one to FONTS")
def track(src):
"""Center of TARGET in every frame, followed with OpenCV's CSRT tracker and lightly smoothed."""
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(src)
_, img = cap.read()
x0, y0, x1, y1 = TARGET
tracker = cv2.TrackerCSRT_create()
tracker.init(img, (round(x0 * w), round(y0 * h), round((x1 - x0) * w), round((y1 - y0) * h)))
points = [((x0 + x1) / 2 * w, (y0 + y1) / 2 * h)]
while True:
ok, img = cap.read()
if not ok:
break
found, (bx, by, bw, bh) = tracker.update(img)
points.append((bx + bw / 2, by + bh / 2) if found else points[-1])
pts = np.array(points)
padded = np.pad(pts, ((SMOOTH // 2, SMOOTH // 2), (0, 0)), mode="edge")
kernel = np.ones(SMOOTH) / SMOOTH
return np.stack([np.convolve(padded[:, i], kernel, mode="valid") for i in range(2)], axis=1)
def tag():
font = ImageFont.truetype(FONT_FILE, round(w * SIZE))
pad = round(w * SIZE * 0.6)
x0, y0, x1, y1 = font.getbbox(TEXT)
img = Image.new("RGBA", (x1 + 2 * pad, round(w * SIZE * 1.1) + 2 * pad))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.rounded_rectangle([0, 0, img.width - 1, img.height - 1], radius=img.height // 2, fill=COLOR)
draw.text((img.width / 2, img.height / 2), TEXT, font=font, anchor="mm", fill=(20, 16, 28))
return img
def overlay(i):
img = Image.new("RGBA", (w, h))
p = min(max((i / fps - START) / POP, 0), 1)
if p <= 0:
return img
x, y = path[min(i, len(path) - 1)]
ease = 1 - (1 - p) ** 3
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
r = w * 0.016 * ease
draw.ellipse([x - r - 3, y - r - 3, x + r + 3, y + r + 3], fill=(20, 16, 28))
draw.ellipse([x - r, y - r, x + r, y + r], fill=COLOR)
tx, ty = x + OFFSET[0] * w, y + OFFSET[1] * h
draw.line([(x, y), (x + (tx - x) * ease, y + (ty - y) * ease)], fill=COLOR, width=max(2, round(w * 0.006)))
card = label.copy()
card.putalpha(card.getchannel("A").point(lambda a: round(a * ease)))
img.alpha_composite(card, (round(tx), round(ty - card.height / 2)))
return img
def probe(path):
info = json.loads(subprocess.check_output(["ffprobe", "-v", "error", "-select_streams", "v:0", "-show_entries",
"stream=width,height,r_frame_rate:format=duration", "-of", "json", path]))
s = info["streams"][0]
num, den = s["r_frame_rate"].split("/")
return s["width"], s["height"], s["r_frame_rate"], float(num) / float(den), float(info["format"]["duration"])
def render(src, out):
"""Draw overlay(frame number) on every frame of src and save to out, keeping the audio."""
ff = subprocess.Popen(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-v", "error", "-i", src,
"-f", "rawvideo", "-pix_fmt", "rgba", "-s", f"{w}x{h}", "-r", rate, "-i", "-",
"-filter_complex", "[0:v][1:v]overlay=shortest=1,format=yuv420p[v]",
"-map", "[v]", "-map", "0:a?", "-c:v", "libx264", "-crf", "18", "-c:a", "copy", out],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
for i in range(math.ceil(duration * fps)):
ff.stdin.write(overlay(i).tobytes())
ff.stdin.close()
if ff.wait():
sys.exit("ffmpeg failed")
src, out = sys.argv[1:3]
w, h, rate, fps, duration = probe(src)
path = track(src)
label = tag()
render(src, out)





