Erasing a website link on a video

[fictionaldaydream]

I have a video I want to burn on a vcd but it has a website link on it. It is not in the video it is just widscreen with that stupid link at the bottom. Is there any way I can cover it with black like a normal widscreen?

[Tommyknocker]

You can make a logo of a black bar and put it over the writing. If that sounds feasible, here you go:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/faq.htm#logoadd

[MITSUI_1]

If I understand your post, the web address is in one of the "black bars" that appear in a widescreen movie encoded to a 4:2 aspect ratio.

So, just run the clip through avisynth and use the "letterbox" command to add clean black strips again.

[fictionaldaydream]

Alright let me see if I can clear this up a bit. I have a mpeg file that is widescreen and it has someones website link at the bottom about 2in tall or close to it. I don't want to watch the film with that link on it. So I am asking how do I take it off of there. Erase it from the video, so all I can see is the movie.

[Tommyknocker]

That is what I thought you said. You make a bitmap of nothing but a black bar about the size of the website text you do not want to see. Use a logo filter to place this black bar over the web site on your video. So you no longer need to look at the writing, because the black bar will now be covering it.

[KingJohn]

Alright let me see if I can clear this up a bit. I have a mpeg file that is widescreen and it has someones website link at the bottom about 2in tall or close to it. I don't want to watch the film with that link on it. So I am asking how do I take it off of there. Erase it from the video, so all I can see is the movie.

Load into TMPGEnc, select setting > advanced > clip frame

Select full screen > keep aspect ratio
Crop bottom, but also crop from top until it starts to remove picture.

Use VCD template to produce a VCD or select file > output to file > AVI > codec > settings, to produce an AVI

Much better to crop it out than put an annoying block box on the screen, almost as bad as the link

[lodoss_24]

now, with that method could I remove text or logos anywhere on the screen?

[fictionaldaydream]

Thanks for all the help. It worked perfectly. Thanks

[KingJohn]

Thanks for all the help. It worked perfectly. Thanks

Glad you got it sorted

[KingJohn]

now, with that method could I remove text or logos anywhere on the screen?

Yes and NO, if you think you can just crop out a area of the movie, then no you cannot. The crop will work across the whole of the screen (top/botton/left/right), if the logo is close to an edge you can crop that edge out completely.

Removing a logo with any other method means you have to add something on top of it, adding a black square, or using Vdub logo-away will copy the surrounding area and place it on top of the logo, its not too bad, but remember when ever you add something to a movie like this, you also add noise during the re-compress.

So when ever possible use the crop function when converting in TMPGEnc, if you need to keep it as an AVI, then TMPGEnc will also output to file > AVI or use Vdub filter > Nul transform

If the source is a DVD rip, then logo away could be used in Vdub without too many artifacts being added to the output