Miami Vice Help! Remove of titles

[RBCC]

I have sent along 2 pictures , I would like to remove the titles in each and put my own custom ones in! Here is one:

And the other :



Is there an easy way to do the removal?? John

[hech54]

Is there an easy way to do the removal?? John

Nope.

[RBCC]

Can somebody direct me to where I can find how to do it?

[manono]

Thought I had edited below, but had replied. Deleting this one. Sorry.

[manono]

if you absolutely have to, then add your text in a box on top of the original text. I don't think much of the idea, though.

That will force a reencode of the entire thing. You could create subtitles in a box and then you wouldn't have to reencode.

[Arnold_Layne]

The text is part of the picture. You cannot remove them.

[jagabo]

As far as removing titles is concerned, you can consider them a logo. There are a million threads here about "logo removal". Removing opaque logos like that usually leaves a blurry wiggly mess.

[RBCC]

Is there a way I can use my font instead of that one?

[hech54]

is there a way i can use my font instead of that one?

read.

add your text in a box on top of the original text.

the text is part of the picture. You cannot remove them.

removing opaque logos like that usually leaves a blurry wiggly mess.

there are a million threads here about "logo removal".

[Bernix]

there is a plugin for virtual dub, you can try it http://www.compression.ru/video/subtitles_removal/index_en.html

[RBCC]

@arnold_layne: thanks for the warning

@manono: what program allows you to place the titles you want on top of the original ? Should I use photoshop? Is there a program that allows you to sub divide the proper frame in order to edit it?

[usually_quiet]

what program allows you to place the titles you want on top of the original ? Should I use photoshop? Is there a program that allows you to sub divide the proper frame in order to edit it?

I hope you realize that manono means that you would overlay the existing text area with an opaque box to cover up the existing text, then add your own text on top, or use subtitiles with an opaque background to do the same. I agree with him that there is not much benefit to doing this since you will loose even more of the picture.

Find a better source to work with, preferably a legal one, per forum rules.

[Edit]COZI TV is currently airing the series over-the-air in the US. ...and NBC has Miami Vice episodes on their website free of charge, which I found with Google http://www.nbc.com/classic-tv/miami-vice/video/streetwise/n30590

However, it looks like there is probalbly no "better source" without the titles that you want to remove. Those were part of the video when the show was aired! The best you can do is find a source without hard coded subtitles.

[jagabo]

what program allows you to place the titles you want on top of the original ?

Pretty much every video editor has the ability to overlay an image onto a video. You could use Overlay() in AviSynth, the Logo filter in VirtualDub, etc. And of course all the commercial products like Premiere, Vegas, etc.

[TimA-C]

First question has to be WHY?

If you're wanting to use the MV titles to create a spoof title sequence for your own video then you could recreate the title sequence from the various episodes that the original clips used in the title were taken from. A much easier option is to use the audio from the original title sequence (demux clip) and create your own title sequence of clips from footage in the episode(s) you already have. You can then mux the title sequence audio back with your new (demuxed) title sequence and put your own titles and subtitles on that. Very few people will remember every scene in the title sequence. (If queried, just say it was taken from the very last season - very few people remember that one!)

[RBCC]

How hard is to get it exact??? John

[jagabo]

How hard is to get it exact???

Reconstructing the title sequence? It could be impossible since some shots in the titles may never have appeared in any episode.

[usually_quiet]

I watched the first few minutes of "Streetwise" last week at nbc.com. The text RBCC wants to replace is not part of the title sequence. The video in which they appear is part of the episode itself. Those scenes are, in all probability, unique to that episode and I would be very surprised if the text was not present in that form when the episode originally aired in 1986. Credits needed to be large for legibility. It was the 1980s and most people were watching the show sitting 8-10 feet away from their 20-inch CRT TV.

[RBCC]

I wasn't knowingly reconstruct the title sequence. I was trying to change the font in the word streetwise to the same in the words "Miami Vice". I thought it would look better than the font they had. I can't seem to find a app that will do this! Jtm

[jagabo]

I wasn't knowingly reconstruct the title sequence. I was trying to change the font in the word streetwise to the same in the words "Miami Vice". I thought it would look better than the font they had. I can't seem to find a app that will do this! Jtm

It's not a font, it's part of the picture. To change the text you have to erase what's there, restore what was behind it, then write new text.