extractplanes

Extract color channel components from input video stream into separate grayscale video streams.

The filter accepts the following option:

planes

Set plane(s) to extract.

Available values for planes are:

‘y’

‘u’

‘v’

‘a’

‘r’

‘g’

‘b’

Choosing planes not available in the input will result in an error. That means you cannot select r, g, b planes with y, u, v planes at same time.

Examples

• Extract luma, u and v color channel component from input video frame into 3 grayscale outputs:

  ffmpeg -i video.avi -filter_complex 'extractplanes=y+u+v[y][u][v]' -map '[y]' y.avi -map '[u]' u.avi -map '[v]' v.avi