FFmpeg Video Plugins

The following is a list of the integrated video plug-ins ¹⁶ .

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-ins ¹⁶: credit to WPfilmmaker

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