New black mask project

[loninappleton]

There is a previous thread I had with help for code of making a black mask for an image (timer running) on lower screen.

I'm making a fresh thread on this because it got too long and I have more questions.

First not directly on topic: It was mentioned that putting ffmpeg in the System32 folder would be beneficial to run the code command I have. I want to put all this together first to avoid a lot of frustrating "everything you know about the command line is wrong" errors. So is that a good thing?

To begin, I have downloaded and installed FFmpeg current 7 to it's folder in Program files. The new mkv I've renamed "Electra.mkv" to avoid long program names to test.

here is the code from previous with only the name change.

ffmpeg -i "ffmpeg -i "Electra.mkv" -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:2 ^
-vf crop="in_w:in_h-62:0:0",pad="in_w:in_h+62:0:0",atadenoise,unsharp, atadenoise ^
-c:v libx264 -profile:v high -level:v 4.0 -preset medium -crf 22 ^
-c:a copy -c copy -y "Electra-new.mkv" -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:2 ^
-vf crop="in_w:in_h-62:0:0",pad="in_w:in_h+62:0:0",atadenoise,unsharp, atadenoise ^
-c:v libx264 -profile:v high -level:v 4.0 -preset medium -crf 22 ^
-c:a copy -c copy -y "Electra-new.mkv"

Are there changes needed from the MediaInfo of this mkv to execute?

The goal is to mask a current subtitle which is hard coded and add some custom subs which I got some help with here on videohelp to make.

I'm unsure where the Electra.mkv should reside to execute this.

Already I have errors-- some smiley face overwrites and error using the the code # command.

[loninappleton]

I would like to delete this thread as a duplicate.