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Split a clip into channel streams with FFmpeg extractplanes
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What this guide covers
For editors and compositors who want to inspect luma, chroma or R, G and B channels as separate grayscale pictures. You end with one grayscale file per channel. Based on the FFmpeg manual and not run; it does not cover turning planes into mattes.
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Guide title
Split a clip into channel streams with FFmpeg extractplanes
Coverage
For editors and compositors who want to inspect luma, chroma or R, G and B channels as separate grayscale pictures. You end with one grayscale file per channel. Based on the FFmpeg manual and not run; it does not cover turning planes into mattes.
Example
A hypothetical green-screen shot split into luma, U and V outputs with the manual's command; no run was made, so what the channels show is unknown.
Useful starting points
- Choosing a plane the input format does not have is an error; convert the pixel format first.
- Do not mix r, g, b with y, u, v in one selection; use separate runs.
- Map every output label, otherwise streams are unused or the command fails.
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