Adding Extra Information to Saved Video Overlay (.ass)

No worries, glad to hear it was helpful :slight_smile:

See how you go. Adding text shouldn’t be very difficult, and it’s also possible to add images (e.g. company logo) but that will be a bit more complex.

As an example, the following line specifies some

  • semi-transparent text (\alpha&HAA&AA is 170 / 255 = 66.67\% transparent)
  • in the top right corner* (\an9 → aligned by top right, \pos(1910,5) → 10 pixels in from right side (of 1920x1080 video), 5 pixels down from the top)
  • that’s visible for the entire video (starts at earliest possible time (0:00:00.0), ends at latest possible time (9:59:59.99))
  • with a smaller font size (\fs18 → 18 pixels tall font size) for the lower two lines (after \N forced line break)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.0,9:59:59.99,Default,,0,0,0,,{\an9\pos(1910,5)\alpha&HAA&}Blue Robotics\N{\fs18}For: Another Company\NProject: PID-53871

You can try it out by adding it to the [Events] section of one of your existing .ass files (e.g. using a text editor) and playing the video :slight_smile:

*Note: if you leave it as \an9 with no \pos(x,y) specified it will auto-locate the text in the top right corner. The \pos is just for if you want to specify precisely where it ends up.


By the way, I tried this and it doesn’t work. That’s also consistent with the specification, which says that only the first alignment specifier is considered.