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CreateVideoMeme

This is a Shell script to put caption on top of videos (thus, making them memes)

Getting Started

Dependencies

ffmpeg (ffmpeg and ffprobe)
imagemagick (convert)

Installation

Just copy video-meme to your $PATH and make it executable (sudo chmod +x $PATH/video-meme)

Usage

Simple example
If you use it this way, the script will try to find an optimal size for the text.

$ video-meme input.mp4 "Your text here" output.mp4

To use a different font

$ video-meme --font <font> input.mp4 "<text>" output.mp4

You can use a font installed in your system or a custom font file (as long as it's supported by magick)

To see a list of available fonts run

$ convert -list font

To set the text size (This will deactivate the auto-set-size feature)

$ video-meme --textsize <size> input.mp4 "<text>" output.mp4

If you want to see the caption image before the video is processed

$ video-meme --showimage input.mp4 "Your text here" output.mp4

Use -h to display the help message

video-meme <VIDEO_PATH> <TEXT> [--textsize SIZE]
	[--showimage] [--font FONT | --font <FONT_FILE_PATH>] OUTPUT_FILE
	
Options
	--textsize SIZE		Set the size of the text (default 75)
	--showimage		Show the caption image before making the video
	--font FONT		Set a font for the caption text (default: helvetica)

Known bugs

The auto-set-font-size feature is experimental and it may be slow, if that's the case, it is recommended to use the --textsize option with --showimage