How do I get rid of warning text that streams along bottom

[videocheez]

I have encoded a nice DVD of lord of the rings. It's my test flic where I try varying different parameters each time encode in order to see how the over all quality is affected. Now I would like to see if its possible to get rid of a warning script that streams along the bottom of the movie every 15 minutes. I have been encoding using CCE and now I wonder if I could write an avisynth scipt to get rid of the periodic text.

Thanks in advance,

[Conquest10]

is the text caused by the encoder?

[videocheez]

No, it's on the AVI that I dowloaded from Kazaa. I'm guessing that this will be most challenging or maybe impossible.

[Conquest10]

just crop it off.

[videocheez]

Crop the frames that have the warning? As I mentioned, the warning streams across the screen every 15min. Croping is a good idea but it's gonna make my movie thin. I already have 720x272 resolution. I was hoping for some type of erasing scheme. If I do try cropping, do you have any suggestions about how I can acomplish this?

Thanks in advance,

VC

[Conquest10]

you think you can just tell a program "eliminate the copyright notice" and it will do it without leaving a trace? you can't. you have to either crop it off, just leave it there, or just put a black box over the message.

[Conquest10]

i see you got a dvd drive. just rip the disc. that way you get no copyright messages.

[videocheez]

do you know of script that I can write to put black box over it?

Thanks for your time,

[vandakeg]

There is a plugin for VirtualDub that does exactly what you're asking. You can choose to either put a black box over the text, or you can have it blur it out. It actually does a very good job blurring, and you can usually get very acceptable results w/ trial and error.
I can't remember the name of the plugin right now... maybe someday else can help me. I think its called 'nologo' or 'logogone' or something like that.

[ZippyP.]

It's called Logoaway and you'll find it by doing a google search. It's used as a filter in Vdub. It has a preview function to locate the box over the text. Unless you cut the film up into chunks it gets applied to the entire length of the video. I experimented by cutting, filtering and pasting a screeener I had and the results were very good, if somewhat time consuming.

[videocheez]

Thanks for the tip guys. Since I will use the logo eraser program in virtual dub, should I run it on the AVI prior to encoding to MPEG2 or can virtual dub do any work on video files besides AVI and I'll wait to attempt to get rid of the logo on the MEG2 end product.

Thanks again,

[ZippyP.]

You filter your Avi with Vdub before encoding to mpeg. For filtering, you set the video in Vdub to full processing mode, set up the filter, then you select a compression, then save Avi. Since you are recompressing the video there is some quality loss, but it can be avoided if you frameserve. I recommend frameserving and there is a simple guide for it on this site.

Frameserving works by setting up a small fake file between Vdub and your encoder (TMPGEnc?). Vdub filters and serves the video frame by frame to the encoder. A big advantage doing this is that in Vdub you can select No compression, so there is no loss due to recompression. Normally an uncompressed Avi would be many gigabytes in size but frameserving avoids that too.

Either way works, but frameserving is a little more complicated and works better.

Here's the guide: https://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm

Good luck!