Movie Company's Advertizement Scenes

[jmsrickland]

What are those scenes that you see at the very begining of a movie called? It appears right after you select 'play movie' and then the motion picture studio shows their logos either as a non-moving clip or usually it is in motion. Like the ones you see for MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Columbia, etc.

I am looking for a source of these especilly from the old days when you would see RKO, Republic, United Studios, United Artists, and other old ones like these. I have some old classics that I would like to replace by editing the movie with ones that I might be able to download from somewhere. The ones on the movies are pretty crappy (like alot of glitches nd other undesirable things).

[guns1inger]

They are studio logos. I don't know of a legal download sourcve for them as they are company trademarks and covered by copyright.

The best source would be quality restorations of works with these logos. In a lot of cases they are either titles in their own right, or a part of the first chapter. You should be able to extract them easily from a disc, even with something like DVD Shrink.

[jmsrickland]

I do now how, I think, to extract them from the video using DVD Shrink or VideoStudio but to then restore them back to a decent condition I don't know what to use for such a task. Sounds like that might be quite an undertaking.

[jmsrickland]

Oh, off subject a bit, but is it possible to have DVD Shrink read in MPEG video files? I can only see where it reads in VOB files. I did some TV recording through a TV-Tuner card in my PC but it only saves the recorded program as an MPEG file. I would like to be able to extract out all the areas where commericals were and I know DVD Shrink can do that but getting the MPEG video into DVD Shrink I don't know if it can do that.

[lordsmurf]

Glitches? Why would official releases use ones with glitches? That doesn't make any sense.

[jmsrickland]

"Glitches? Why would official releases use ones with glitches? That doesn't make any sense."

No. That wasn't what I was talking about. They are old classics that I either got off of TV or had on an old VHS tape. The movies are "worn out' so to speak from either a not so good recording or from a not so good VHS tape. I just want to put them on DVD and make some of those intros better than they appear.

[guns1inger]

I would consider if it was worth it - it may just make the rest look worse.

[jmsrickland]

Most of the movies are fine. It's just the beginning when the VCR tape started exactly at the begining and it caused the intro part to jump and have what looks like tracking errors accross the top and glitches runing accross the screen. Once it gets into the movie the VCR tape settled down and recorded most of them in pretty good shape (except on some where I want to remove the commericals).