Extracting a video from a livestream

[bojanpvaloso]

Hello everyone.

I am a video editor and I need help with a project of mine. I'm doing some freelance work and I need to extract a video from a live stream. I know how to do it obviously, but since the live stream has a template on it while a person is speaking and the video of said person covers like 1/5 of the whole screen, so my question is, is there any way to 'cut' out the video of the person speaking and display it on full screen without losing too much of the quality?

Thank you in advance.

[Cornucopia]

No. And you should know this. A crop down to 1/5 & stretch resize back to fs will be noticeable, even with the best algorithm. Storing interim using lossless can temporarily avoid further degradation, but the damage will have been done.

Scott