Adding text to movie in Matlab

Hi Guys

The Phantom camera captures about 3000 frames during my experiment. Using the camera software, I make a movie (.avi format) from these frames. I now wish to add the time (text) to each frame. Can i do this in Matlab? I tried loading the .avi file in matlab..but i'm not able to find the commands which will help me to put some text on each frame. Any help will be appreciated

cheers Prakhar (Grad Student, Caltech)

Answer 1

[Jan]

Without doubt Matlab is powerful. And you can hit a nail in the wall using a drilling machine.

Nevertheless, if there are dedicated usable solutions for a very specific task, it is in general more efficient to use them: The logo filter of VirtualDub, MovieMaker, etc. You could start with asking your favourite internet search engine for "insert text in AVI".

Answer 2

[Michelle Hirsch]

Try the text command.

- scott

[Anand]

hi, i want to add text to every certain frames in a movie. the code below adds text throughout the video. do you know how i approach this problem? thank you

Title_={'Smile'};
imshow(Background), hold on
text(40,100,Title_{1},'Color','k','FontWeight','Bold','FontSize',40);