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Add a paid partnership label to input.mp4 Label: Paid partnership
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 paid partnership label 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 |
|---|---|---|
LABEL | Paid partnership | The disclosure text. |
START | 0.3 | Second the label appears. |
FADE | 0.3 | Seconds it takes to fade and slide in. |
X, Y | 0.05, 0.05 | Top-left corner of the tag (0-1 across and down the frame). |
TEXT_SIZE | 0.045 | Text height as a share of the frame width. |
FILL | (0, 0, 0, 150) | Tag color and opacity (0-255). |
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Add a burned-in paid partnership label to input.mp4. Draw a rounded pill (fully rounded ends) filled with black at 150/255 opacity, its top-left corner at 5% across and 5% down the frame. Inside it, a white dot 1.6% of the frame width across, then the words "Paid partnership" in bold white text 4.5% of the frame width tall, both vertically centered; pad the pill by 3% of the frame width left and right and 1.8% top and bottom, with 1.8% of the frame width between the dot and the text. The label is not there at first: at 0.3 seconds it fades in over 0.3 seconds while sliding down 1.5% of the frame height into place (ease out), then stays to the end. Use Python with Pillow to draw it and ffmpeg to put it 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 paid-partnership-label.py and run:
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Paid partnership label: a dark rounded "Paid partnership" tag fades in at the top left and stays.
Usage: python3 paid-partnership-label.py input.mp4 output.mp4
Needs ffmpeg and Pillow (pip install pillow).
"""
import json
import math
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
LABEL = "Paid partnership" # the disclosure text
START = 0.3 # second the label appears
FADE = 0.3 # seconds it takes to fade and slide in
X, Y = 0.05, 0.05 # top-left corner of the tag (0-1 across and down the frame)
TEXT_SIZE = 0.045 # text height as a share of the frame width
FILL = (0, 0, 0, 150) # tag color and opacity (0-255)
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 tag():
"""The pill: white text with a small white dot in front, on a translucent dark rounded box."""
font = ImageFont.truetype(FONT_FILE, round(w * TEXT_SIZE))
left, top, right, bottom = font.getbbox(LABEL)
pad_x, pad_y = round(w * 0.03), round(w * 0.018)
dot = round(w * 0.016)
width = pad_x + dot + pad_x * 0.6 + right + pad_x
height = bottom - top + 2 * pad_y
img = Image.new("RGBA", (round(width), round(height)))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.rounded_rectangle([0, 0, img.width - 1, img.height - 1], radius=img.height // 2, fill=FILL)
cy = img.height / 2
draw.ellipse([pad_x, cy - dot / 2, pad_x + dot, cy + dot / 2], fill="white")
draw.text((pad_x + dot + pad_x * 0.6, cy), LABEL, font=font, anchor="lm", fill="white")
return img
def overlay(t):
img = Image.new("RGBA", (w, h))
p = min(max((t - START) / FADE, 0), 1)
if p > 0:
ease = 1 - (1 - p) ** 3
faded = label.copy()
faded.putalpha(label.getchannel("A").point(lambda a: round(a * ease)))
img.alpha_composite(faded, (round(w * X), round(h * Y - h * 0.015 * (1 - ease))))
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(t) 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 / fps).tobytes())
ff.stdin.close()
if ff.wait():
sys.exit("ffmpeg failed")
src, out = sys.argv[1:3]
w, h, rate, fps, duration = probe(src)
label = tag()
render(src, out)





