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created: 2025-11-06T02:51:46.190Z
updated: 2025-11-15T20:19:57.181Z
---# ffmpeg | Add text to a video.

**URL:** [https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html](https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html)

ffmpeg | Add text to a video. ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "drawtext=text='Hello World':fontfile=/path/to/font.ttf:fontsize=30:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.5:boxborderw=5:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=(h-text_h)/2" output.mp4


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**Keywords:** public
