Adding fadein and fadeout effects to video

[hockeyhabit]

Hi, I have a ffmpeg problem that I'm hoping someone can help me sort out:


I'm trying to create a fade-in effect and fade-out effect on a video, but it ends up with some corruption.


Here are the major steps I'm doing:


1) get 3 second segment from the beginning of the video and 3 second segment from end of the video (and keeping a copy of the middle part)
2) add fade in and fade out effects to the small begin/end clips
3) rejoin the three clips back together for an overall fade-in/fade-out


The corruption appears to only effect the middle segment of the video - I get Green Screen flashes, etc.


(there are a few other minor steps I do which I will mention below)


Here is a copy of the ffprobe on the input video (in case it helps)


user@ubuntu:/var/www$ /home/user/bin/ffprobe all.mp4
ffprobe version git-2013-12-06-59398c1 Copyright (c) 2007-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Nov 30 2013 09:45:12 with gcc 4.6 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
configuration: --prefix=/home/user/ffmpeg_build --extra-cflags=-I/home/user/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/user/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/home/user/bin --extra-libs=-ldl --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree
libavutil 52. 56.100 / 52. 56.100
libavcodec 55. 45.100 / 55. 45.100
libavformat 55. 22.100 / 55. 22.100
libavdevice 55. 5.102 / 55. 5.102
libavfilter 3. 92.100 / 3. 92.100
libswscale 2. 5.101 / 2. 5.101
libswresample 0. 17.104 / 0. 17.104
libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'all.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder : Lavf55.22.100
Duration: 00:00:14.14, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 5980 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 5762 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 30 tbr, 30k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 235 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : SoundHandler




I have a routine that will tell me the number of seconds in a video, the all.mp4 video is 14 seconds in length


Here is my command I am using to extract the three parts of the video:
ffmpeg -y -i /var/www/all.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:00:00 -to 00:00:03 -sn /var/www/a.tmp.mp4 \
-vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:00:03 -to 00:00:11 -sn /var/www/b.tmp.mp4 \
-vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:00:11 -to 00:00:14 -sn /var/www/c.tmp.mp4


I have a routine that counts the number of frames in a segment, I use it on the a.tmp.mp4 and c.tmp.mp4 files (python code below)
cmd = "ffmpeg -i " + fileName + " -vcodec copy -f rawvideo -y /dev/null 2>&1"




I look at the output and find the number of frames: (python code below)
numFrames = re.search('frame\W+(\d+)', output).group(1)






using the numFrames for a.tmp.mp4 (89) and c.tmp.mp4 (58) I add the fade in and fade out effect:




ffmpeg -i /var/www/a.tmp.mp4 -vf 'fade=in:0:89' -y /var/www/a_withfade.tmp.mp4
ffmpeg -i /var/www/c.tmp.mp4 -vf 'fade=out:0:58' -y /var/www/c_withfade.tmp.mp4




I then create a concat.txt file with the contents:
file 'a_withfade.tmp.mp4'
file 'b.tmp.mp4'
file 'c_withfade.tmp.mp4'




ffmpeg -f concat -i /var/www/concat.txt -c copy -y /var/www/all.mp4


(yes, I want to overwrite my original file)




I have examined each of the three parts of the video individually and they all play fine
(ie, a_withfade.tmp.mp4, b.tmp.mp4 and c_withfade.tmp.mp4)


As I mentioned, the middle portion becomes corrupted as a result of the joining of the files.


Any pointers would be appreciated, I have been working with video for a week+ now so I'm still somewhat of a newcomer to ffmpeg, etc.


I'm guessing that this has to do with the way the mp4 video is compressed vs rawvideo but I'm not really sure.




I have found that some people have fixed corrupted videos using a command like the following (which doesn't help me):

ffmpeg -i all.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy all_fixed.mp4


I can upload the video if it will help, but I suspect that it won't help with this problem.

[MaverickTse]

try the free NLE AviUtl. At least that will be much easier to do the fading in a GUI.
Make sure you check the "video guide" by x-racer first, and you may dig into the details from the "Non-official guide" by me.
The links to both guides are already listed on AviUtl 's page.