How to put an overlay on a video
<p>I am currently working in Python and using OpenCV's videocapture and cv.imshow to show a video. I am trying to put an overlay on this video so I can draw on it using cv.line, cv.rectangle, etc. Each time the frame changes it clears the image that was drawn so I am hoping if I was to put an overlay of some sort on top of this that it would allow me to draw multiple images on the video without clearing. Any advice? Thanks ahead!</p>

<p>I am not sure that I have understood your question properly.What I got from your question is that you want the overlay to remain on your frame, streamed from Videocapture,  for that one simple solution is to declare your "Mat_cam"(camera streaming variable) outside the loop that is used to capture frames so that "Mat_cam" variable will not be freed every time you loop through it.  </p>

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