Color Correction Tool with selection capabilities wanted version 2.0

[BlooderButcher]

Hi!

I'm wanting to get a video editing software or a tool that can perform the following things

- saturation of a small part of the video, e.g a range from 0,0 to 30,240 from a video with 320x240 of size, or in other words, a vertical bar or range located at the left side of the video

- brightness or contrast and other effects like blur, emboss, invert, sharpen and grayscale

I tried VirtualDub but that program only performs for the entire video area, not just only a small area, another example would be an horizontal bar at the bottom of the video area.

That's because I'm wanting to dark and nd elevate the amount of blue (saturation) to a small area from a video. Like creating a bluish darker bar on the bottom without losing the video.

Or something like a square area with more red or a blurred circle area on a TV Logo.

For me, any AVI/MPEG tool would be desirable! 8)

And I don't have a very fast machine, better saying I still have a Duron 750Mhz with only 128MB of RAM. But tools like VirtualDub my machine can process them very well.

And my sincere sorries if my english sounds bad, I'm a brazilian

[guns1inger]

You could look at Wax2 from debugmode. It will also use some virtualdub filters, so you may get the best of both worlds.

[manono]

Hi-

- saturation of a small part of the video, e.g a range from 0,0 to 30,240 from a video with 320x240 of size, or in other words, a vertical bar or range located at the left side of the video

AviSynth. Create the original video. Create another cropped to the desired dimensions and saturated via the Tweak command. Then use the Overlay command to place the saturated video on top of the original. You don't encode them separately, and then a 3rd time to join. It's all done in one go.

http://www.avisynth.org.ru/docs/english/corefilters/tweak.htm
http://www.avisynth.org.ru/docs/english/corefilters/overlay.htm

- brightness or contrast and other effects like blur, emboss, invert, sharpen and grayscale

Brightness and contrast using the same Tweak command. Blur with the Blur command. Sharpen using the Sharpen command, or other better AviSynth functions, such as LimitedSharpenFaster. Don't know how to emboss. Invert using FlipVertical or Invert (?). Grayscale using Tweak or Greyscale.

[BlooderButcher]

Yee Haa!!! Cool!!! 8) 8) 8)

After 30 minutes I posted that message I got some beautiful answers

I was reading about the Wax tool but I didn't know if that tool would be the right for me or not.
Thanx 'guns1inger', I'm downloading the tool right now...

Should I waxing my videos like waxing surf boards?

I will surely and definetely surf the waves using the WAX

And I knew about the AVISynth but I really think that would be tedious to program a video. (Am I Ironic?) :P

[BlooderButcher]

Hi again...

I tested the Wax but unfortunately I can't get the desired effects...

And I don't want to use the extreme powerfull AVISynth because I'm wanting to calibrate the colors levels from my video.

Sorry if I'm becoming very boring but I'm really wanting a WYSIWYG tool.

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get (or something like a visual tool).

Let me explain what I'm wanting...

1 - You open a AVI file, this file use DivX 5.2.0 codec at 700kbs and the audio part is compressed using Lame MP3 Codec at 128 kbps, 44100 Hz, Stereo.

2 - You get something like a selection tool, like a dotted square found on many image editing softwares and this tool can be shaped to other forms, like circles, squares, rectangles, etc...

3 - You define/delimit the area using that selection tool on the entire video area. I'm wanting to make a botton horizontal bar more darker and a little bit of blue (on RGB scale), because I'm wanting to do some subtitles on the bar using another program.

4 - After you open a dialog box where you can set things like blur, emboss, sharpen, brightness, contrast, gamma, saturation (what I need)..

5 - And its's done, you set a output AVI filename, set the DivX codec and the MP3 codec, press something like a 'Process' button, wait the colored corrected video to be recompreessed. Ready!!!

I thank everbody here in advance by the full understanding of what I'm wanting...

My sincere thanks and my sincere sorries...

See Ya!!! Mates
(australian english even I'm a brazilian and speaking natively portuguese) 8)

[guns1inger]

Can I suggest it would be easier to do this with a coloured overlay than trying to select and alter the colour of just a portion of the frame ?

Create the coloured bar in a graphics program against a transparent background. Save as a .png, and then overlay this on your video where the subs will eventually go.

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=248307 will show you how to overlay using virtualdub.

Otherwise you will have to buy something like Premiere Elements or Vegas Movie Studio to do what you want.

[BlooderButcher]

Ok guns1inger!

But I'm wanting also to blur over a TV Logo, or something like smudging it or even unfocusing it

I will explain again what I'm wanting for... Hey, people, I'm a nice guy, I have a great sense of humor and I usually like to tell some jokes too. 8) :P

The Photoshop and the free image manipulation program called GIMP have tools that perform the things like that.

I'm really surprised by the fact that I can't find tools that perform simple operations like selecting a area using a selection tool or using pixels coordinates and perform operations under pixel level like many image manipulation softwares perform.

One example could be. You all already saw when we are watching TV police cases and we need to protect the witness using a blurred, unfocused, smudged image or by mosaic/tiled.

Or even selecting a area and determine the following, all the pixels that have the cyan color will be green color. I'm wanting is a very professional tool.

And I'm not restritcted to freewares/free software.

Anyway, any help would be satisfactory... thanx for reading this insane message and my awesome best regards!!! Am I or am I not a nice guy? :P 8)

[guns1inger]

If you want to remove TV logos, do a search for delogo or the MSU logo removal filters. Both are for virtualdub and will try to actually remove the logo from the video.

Plenty of programs to what you want. It is not an unusual request. However, work with video is a lot more complicated that working with still images, so the range of free software doesn't always encompass the same range of effects and features. On the other hand, none of the pro-sumer tools like Vegas or Premiere have the range of image cleanup and restoration tools that can be obtained for virtualdub or avisynth. You just have to choose the correct tools for the job.

If you are happy to look at professional tools, then I would strongly Vegas for most of what you want - very strong colour correction and alteration features amongst other things, and Adobe After Effects for tracking and selective bluring. You can also do this in Vegas, but you would have to keyframe by hand, which can be time consuming.

I still think much of what you want to do can be done by WAX2 if you take the time to learn it.

[vico1]

But I'm wanting also to blur over a TV Logo, or something like smudging it or even unfocusing it

Yup, I'd use,
VirtualDub MSU Logo Remover:
http://www.compression.ru/video/logo_removal/index_en.html
or
Logoaway VirtualDub filter.
http://republika.pl/voidon/virtualdub/

[guns1inger]

I would also install the Lagarith lossless codec and use this if you are doing some work in virtualdub and some work in other programs. This will maintain the video quality through multiple encodes. using DV is OK for one or two encodes. Mpeg1, 2 or 4 is a no-no for multiple encodes as quality degrades very quickly.

[BlooderButcher]

To the respectable forum board member guns1inger: :P

Man!!! Are you surprising me? I'm really liking of you.

I was reading about the Vegas Movie Studio, I will try it... As your posts are very interesting to read...

I loved you when you tell about the Lagarith lossless, well, we know that when we encode a movie too many times it (the movie) lose the quality... Well, I didn't know about the Lagarith.
Thanx, thanx man!!! 8)

And about the Wax, well, I downloaded it but sadly I didn't understand the interface and even I didn't read the user guide, I was bored with it but I will try to read and use the program.

But would be loveable if you make a tutorial here on how to use the Wax...

Well, I personally use VirtualDub, WinVDR for recording application and Mpeg Movie Wizard to create some effects like adding subtitles or transitional effects.

And this is to Vico1. Nice your posts man!!! I got the two logo removers. 8)

[mp4guy]

Can someone help because im downloaded msu virtualdub logo remover but when i open the file all it shows is a liscence note and a vdf file.can someone help me with this plz.A.S.A.P.

[guns1inger]

Put the .vdf file into your virtualdub plugins folder (called Plugins, under the main virtualdub folder). When you start up virtualdub you will find this filter is now in the filters list. All virtualdub filters will have at least one reference in this folder.