Possible? Top of video 1 and bottom of video 2 combined?

[FulciLives]

Hello

Not sure where to post this so it ended up here.

I have two different DVD videos of the same movie. One is PAL format and looks and sounds super great but this is a Spanish movie and a Spanish DVD release so there is NO English option.

I have another DVD of the same movie that is NTSC and it looks and sounds very bad BUT it has English subtitles. However the English subtitles are burned into the image.

Both of the DVD discs are widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) so the subtitles on the NTSC disc are completely below the image in the lower black band.

So I'm thinking ... I know how to convert PAL to NTSC and I live in the USA so I'd rather have NTSC anyways so ... I'm thinking I can convert the PAL DVD to NTSC but crop the bottom and use the bottom of the NTSC DVD image which has the subtitles.

One problem here is synch. The PAL source is 25fps PROGRESSIVE so I know how to easily and correctly make it a PROGRESSIVE (23.976fps) NTSC video. However the NTSC DVD is INTERLACED and from a VIDEO SOURCE so it cannot be IVTC'ed back to 23.976fps ... it is 29.97fps.

So I'm not 100% positive if they will synch up correctly.

However the REAL TRICK here is how to cut the top of the PAL video (actually the converted NTSC version most likely) and the bottom of the NTSC DVD video and combine into a single VIDEO.

Any ideas?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
Again just in case anyone is confused I want to take the top of the one DVD (the top black letterboxed part from the top of the screen all the way down to the bottom of the image ... just at the point where the bottom black band starts) and the bottom (just the black lower band from where it starts under the image to the bottom of the screen) of the second DVD and combine this to make a single video. Hope that makes sense

[racer-x]

Well I don't know about MPEGs, I only edit AVIs. You can join multiple video clips in Premiere easily. Just overlay the croped one on top of the other.

[FulciLives]

Well I don't know about MPEGs, I only edit AVIs. You can join multiple video clips in Premiere easily. Just overlay the croped one on top of the other.

That's very kewl but ...

1.) I'm glad to hear that this IS possible but ...
2.) Is there another "cheap" way of doing it? Last time I bothered to check Premiere was like $600 or something like that hehehe

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[racer-x]

Actually just about any video editor should be able to do overlays. I think even Movie Maker 2 can do overlays. But you will have to convert dvd to avi, edit then convert back to MPEG-2.

[FulciLives]

Actually just about any video editor should be able to do overlays. I think even Movie Maker 2 can do overlays. But you will have to convert dvd to avi, edit then convert back to MPEG-2.

Thanks I'll look into it

- John "FulciLives" Coleman