Add circle, logo, image or blur to video with Avidemux

Posted by Matjaž Kljun on Monday, June 25. 2012

I needed to add a red circle on a video to emphasize the content over a period of a
few seconds. It turns out that this is fairly simple with Avidemux.

Steps:
1. Create a PNG image of a circle with a transparent background (I did it in Gimp and
its beyond this tutorial)
2. Open a video file in avidemux.
3. From the menu select Video -> Filter to open Video Filter Manager, then select
Miscellaneous on the left and doubleclick on Logo (add a png as logo) on the right.
4. In new window select a logo file, enter X and Y positions in pixels from the top left
corner, choose transparency (0 means fully transparent and 255 not) and click
OK button.
5. Back on Video Filter Manager click on Partial button on the bottom of the window,
in a new window enter the frames (which can be found out on the main video
window) and click OK button.
6. Click on the Close button on the Video Filter Manager to return to the main video
window and left to the video select the encoding type instead of default Copy.
7. Just re-save the video.

A logo can be added the same way, just don't use a partial filter (step 5) and
alphashould be 255 (no transparency in step 4).

To blur a certain part of a video (square shaped), just use another filter instead (step
3): Mplayer delogo, enter the position and size of the blurred square/rectangle area.

To move an image (circle) together with the video (for example to follow the face of a
person) use several Logo filters and adjust X and Y accordingly to each of them.