FFmpeg Video Plugins

The following is a list of the integrated video plug-ins ¹⁷ .

F_addroi

 
Mark a region of interest in a video frame.

F_amplify

 
Amplify changes between successive video frames.

F_atadenoise

 
Apply an Adaptive Temporal Averaging Denoiser.

F_avgblur

 
Apply average blur filter.

F_bbox

 
Compute bounding box for each frame.

F_bench

 
Benchmarks part of a filtergraph.

F_bilateral

 
Apply bilateral filter, spatial smoothing while preserving edges.

F_bitplaneoise

 
Measure bit plane noise.

F_blackdetect

 
Detect video intervals that are (almost) black.

F_blackframe

 
Detect frames that are (almost) black.

F_blockdetect

 
Determines blockiness of frames without altering the input frames.

F_blurdetect

 
Determines blurriness of frames without altering the input frames.

F_boxblur

 
Blurs the input video. Through the settings you are able to change the power and the radius of the boxblur applied to luma, chroma and alpha.

F_bwdif

 
Deinterlaces the input image.

F_cas

 
Apply Contrast Adaptive Sharpen filter to video.

F_chromakey

 
Turns a certain color into transparency. Operates on YUV colors.

F_chromanr

 
Reduce chrominance noise.

F_ciescope

 
Video CIE scope.

F_color

 
Provide an uniformly colored input.

F_colorbalance

 
Adjusts the color balance.

F_colorchannelmixer

 
Adjusts colors by mixing color channels.

F_colorchart

 
The colorchart source provides a colors checker chart.

F_colorcontrast

 
Adjust color contrast between RGB components.

F_colorcorrect

 
Adjust color white balance selectivity for blacks and whites.

F_colorkey

 
Turns a certain color into transparency. Operates on RGB colors.

F_colorlevels

 
Adjusts the color levels.

F_colormatrix

 
Converts color matrix.

F_colorize

 
Overlay a solid color on the video stream.

F_colorspace

 
Converts color space.

F_colorspectrum

 
Provides a color spectrum input.

F_colortemperature

 
Adjust color temperature of video.

F_cover_rect

 
Find and cover a user specified object.

F_crop

 
Crops the input video.

F_cropdetect

 
Auto-detect crop size.

F_curves

 
Adjust components curves.

F_datascope

 
Video data analysis.

F_dblur

 
Apply Directional blur filter.

F_dctdnoiz

 
Denoise frames using 2DDCT.

F_deband

 
Debands video.

F_deblock

 
Deblocks video.

F_deflate

 
Applies deflate effect.

F_deflicker

 
Remove temporal frame luminance variations.

F_dejudder

 
Removes judder produced by pullup.

F_delogo

 
Removes logo from input video. When using this plugin a green box will appear on the screen, once the logo is inside the box the plugin will hide it. Through the settings you can specify the position of the logo to hide (on a X - Yaxis) and the size of the box (so you can adjust it to the size of the logo).

F_deshake

 
Stabilizes shaky video.

F_despill

 
Remove uwanted foregrond colors, caused by reflected color of green or blue screen.

F_dilation

 
Applies dilation effect.

F_doubleweave

 
Weave input video fields into double number of frames.

F_drawbox

 
Draws a colored box on the input video. Through the settings you are able to choose the position of the box on X/Y coordinates, the size of the box, the color and the thickness of the lines.

F_drawgraph

 
Draw a graph using input video metadata.

F_drawgrid

 
Draws a colored grid on the input video. Through the settings you can select the horizontal and the vertical offset, set the width and height of the grid cell, and the color and thickness of the lines. When using the Presets button on the plugin bar on the timeline, you can choose a preset of rule_of_thirds. The Rule of Thirds is a 3×3 grid on top of an image which is commonly used in filmmaking. The concept is that you align the key elements in the image using this grid at the intersection of the lines or along and within the vertical/horizontal lines. In general the bottom and right sides of the video will not be bordered by the grid. So for example, if you only add the effect to the video, there will be a frame around the video with the size of the thickness but the frame is only visible on the top and left and not on the bottom or left side. You can get a line to show by using a larger thickness and specifying a negative value for x and y of -2, -3, or more.

F_edgedetect

 
Detects and draws edge.

F_elbg

 
Apply posterize effect, using the ELBG algorithm.

F_entropy

 
Measure video frames entropy.

F_epx

 
Scale the input using EPX algorithm.

F_eq

 
Adjusts brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation.

F_erosion

 
Applies erosion effect.

F_estdif

 
Apply Edge Slope Tracing deinterlace.

F_exposure

 
Adjust exposure of the video stream.

F_fade

 
Fade in/out input video.

F_fftdnoiz

 
Denoise frames using 3DFFT.

F_fftfilt

 
Apply arbitrary expressions to pixels in frequency domain.

F_field

 
Extract a field from the input video.

F_fieldorder

 
Set the field order.

F_fillborders

 
Fill borders of the input video.

F_floodfill

 
Fill area of the same color with another color.

F_format

 
Convert the input video to one of the specified pixel formats.

F_framerate

 
Upsamples or downsamples progressive source between specified frame rates.

F_framestep

 
Select one frame every N frames.

F_fspp

 
Applies Fast Simple Post-processing filter.

F_gblur

 
Apply Gaussian Blur filter.

F_gradfun

 
Debands video quickly using gradients.

F_gradients

 
Draws a transparent gradient.

F_graphmonitor

 
Show various filtergraph stats.

F_grayworld

 
A color constancy filter that applies color correction based on the grayworld assumption.

F_greyedge

 
Estimates scene illumination by grey edge assumption.

F_haldclutsrc

 
Provide an identity Hald CLUT.

F_hflip

 
Horizontally flips the input video.

F_histeq

 
Applies global color histogram equalization.

F_histogram

 
Computes and draws a histogram.

F_hqdn3d

 
Applies a High Quality 3D Denoiser.

F_hqx

 
Scales the input by 2, 3 or 4 using the hq*x magnification algorithm.

F_hsvhold

 
Turns a certain HSV range into gray values.

F_hsvkey

 
Turns a certain HSV range into transparency.

F_hue

 
Adjust the hue and saturation of the input video.

F_huesaturation

 
Apply hue-saturation-intensity adjustments to input video stream.

F_idet

 
Interlace detect Filter.

F_il

 
Deinterleaves or interleaves fields.

F_inflate

 
Applies inflate effect.

F_interlace

 
Convert progressive video into interlaced.

F_kerndeint

 
Applies kernel deinterlacing to the input.

F_kirsch

 
Apply kirsch operator.

F_latency

 
Measure filtering latency.

F_lenscorrection

 
Rectifies the image by correcting for lens distortion.

F_life

 
Generate a life pattern.

F_limiter

 
Limit pixels components to the specified range.

F_loop

 
Loops video frames.

F_lumakey

 
Turns a cerai luma into transparency.

F_lut

 
Compute and apply a lookup table to the RGB/YUV input video.

F_lut1d

 
Adjust colors using a 1D LUT.

F_lut3d

 
Apply a 3D LUT (lookup table) to an input video. LUTs are used to map one color space to another and are frequently supplied with high-end cameras as a .cube file to use as input.

F_lutrgb

 
Compute and apply a lookup table to the RGB input video.

F_lutyuv

 
Combine and apply a lookup table to the YUV input video.

F_mandelbrot

 
Render a Mandelbrot fractal.

F_mcdeint

 
Applies motion compensating deinterlacing.

F_median

 
Pick median pixel from rectangle defined by radius.

F_mestimate

 
Generate motion vectors.

F_monochrome

 
Convert video to gray using custom color filter.

F_mpdecimate

 
Remove near-duplicate frames.

F_mptestsrc

 
Generate various test pattern.

F_negate

 
Negates input video.

F_nlmeans

 
Non-local means denoiser. Example usage is for recovery of VHS tapes which look bad.

F_noise

 
Adds noise to the video. Through the settings you can select the variables of the noise (strength, flag and seed).

F_normalize

 
Normalize RGB video.

F_oscilloscope

 
2D video oscilloscope. Useful to measure spatial impulse, step responses, and chroma delays.

F_owdenoise

 
Denoises using wavelets.

F_pad

 
Add paddings to the input image, and place the original input at the provided x, y coordinates.

F_pal100bars

 
Generate PAL 100% color bars.

F_pal75bars

 
Generate PAL 75% color bars.

F_perms

 
Set permissions for the output video frame.

F_perspective

 
Corrects the perspective of video.

F_phase

 
Phases shift fields.

F_photosensitivity

 
Filter out photosensitive epilepsy seizure-inducing flashes.

F_pixscope

 
Pixel data analysis for checking color and levels. It will display sample values of color channels.

F_pixelize

 
Apply pixelization to video stream.

F_pp

 
Filters video using libpostproc.

F_pp7

 
Applies Postprocessing 7 filter.

F_prewitt

 
Apply prewitt operator.

F_pseudocolor

 
Make pseudocolored video frames.

F_readeia608

 
Read EIA-608 Closed Caption codes from input video & write to frame metadata.

F_readvitc

 
Reads vertical interval timecode and writes it to frame metadata.

F_realtime

 
Slows down filtering to match realtime.

F_removegrain

 
Removes grain.

F_repeatfields

 
Hard repeat fields based on MPEG repeat field flag.

F_rgbtestsrc

 
Generate RGB test pattern.

F_roberts

 
Apply roberts cross operator which performs a simple/quick 2D spatial gradient measurement on the video (usually a grayscale image). It highlights regions of high spatial frequency which most ikely correspond to edges.

F_rotate

 
Rotates the input image by an arbitrary angle expressed in radians. If you want to rotate by degrees, you can use the rotate plugin instead.

F_sab

 
Applies shape adaptive blur.

F_scale

 
Scale the input video size and/or convert the image format.

F_scdet

 
Detect video scene change.

F_scharr

 
Apply scharr operator to input video stream.

F_scroll

 
Scroll input video horizontally and/or vertically by constant speed.

F_separatefields

 
Split input video frames into fields.

F_setparams

 
Force field, or color property for the output video frame.

F_setrange

 
Force color range for the output video frame.

F_shear

 
Shear transform the input image.

F_showpalette

 
Display frame palette.

F_shuffleframes

 
Shuffles video frames.

F_shufflepixels

 
Shuffles video pixels.

F_shuffleplanes

 
Shuffles video planes.

F_sierpinski

 
Generate a Sierpinski carpet/triangle fractal, and randomly pan around.

F_signalstats

 
Separates statistics from video analysis.

F_siti

 
Calculate Spatial Info (SI) and Temporal Info (TI) scores for a video, as defined in ITU-T P.910: Subjective video quality assessment methods for multimedia applications.

F_smartblur

 
Blurs the input video without impacting the outlines. Through the settings you can select the radius, the strength and the threshold of luma and chroma. This plugin can be used to correct over sharpened footage. For example, on a DJI 3840x2160 D-cinelike footage using these settings:

• luma radius: 3.247993
• luma strength: 0.360153
• luma threshold: -2

the over-sharpened edges will be smoothed. All other settings are at default values.

F_smptebars

 
Generate SMPTE color bars.

F_smptehdbars

 
Generate SMPTE HD color bars.

F_sobel

 
Applies sobel operator.

F_spp

 
Applies a simple post processing filter.

F_stereo3d

 
Converts video stereoscopic 3D view.

F_super2xsai

 
Scales the input by 2x using the Super2xSal pixel art algorithm.

F_swaprect

 
Swaps 2 rectangular objects in video.

F_swapuv

 
Swaps U and V components.

F_tblend

 
Blend successive frames.

F_testsrc

 
Generate test pattern.

F_testsrc2

 
Generate another test pattern.

F_thistogram

 
Compute and draw a color distribution histogram for the input video across time.

F_tile

 
Tile several successive frames together.

F_tinterlace

 
Performs temporal field interlacing.

F_tlut2

 
Compute and apply a lookup table from 2 successive frames.

F_tmedian

 
Pick median pixels from successive frames.

F_tmidequalizer

 
Apply Temporal Midway Equalization.

F_tmix

 
Mix successive video frames.

F_transpose

 
Transposes input video.

F_unsharp

 
Sharpen or blur the input videlo.

F_untile

 
Untile a frame into a sequence of frames.

F_uspp

 
Applies Ultra Simple/Slow Post-processing filter.

F_v360

 
Convert 360 videos between various formats.

F_vaguedenoiser

 
Applies a Wavelet based Denoiser.

F_vectorscope

 
Video vectorscope.

F_vflip

 
Flips the input video vertically.

F_vfrdet

 
Variable frame rate detect filter.

F_vibrance

 
Boost or alter saturation.

F_vignette

 
Makes or reverses a vignette effect. Through the settings you can set the circle center position on a X - Yaxis,choose the angle, the aspect and set the dithering of the vignette.

F_w3dif

 
Applies Martin Weston three field deinterlace.

F_waveform

 
Video waveform monitor.

F_weave

 
Weaves input video fields into frames.

F_xbr

 
Scales the input using xBR algorithm.

F_yadif

 
Deinterlaces the input image.

F_yaepblur

 
Yet another edge preserving blur filter.

F_yuvtestsrc

 
Generate YUV test pattern.

F_zoompan

 
Applies Zoom & Pan effect.

Footnotes

... plug-ins¹⁷

credit to WPfilmmaker