removing watermarks?

[tonya_b]

do any of you video masters know of a simple (hehehe) method of removing existing watermarks from a flash video file?

thnx

[Krispy Kritter]

There is no way to actually remove it. With a filter you can blur it, but I find the blur more distracting than the water mark. And you most likely won't be able to do it in flv format. It would would have to be converted to mpg/avi.

[Barnabas]

Delogo can remove it. Search the forums for more info on it.

[tonya_b]

thanks very much for the direction, folks

using delogo seems like the hot ticket, but virtual dub won't recognize an flv file, so I obviously need to convert the video first.

I'll tell ya, I've used several of the converter freeware programs out there, and regardless of which format I do a conversion to, the image quality goes to pot, and virtual dub still won't edit it, because the audio portion of the flash file never transcribes correctly.

There has to be an flv converter out there that doesn't cause such quality issues?

[Barnabas]

You might try MediaCoder. It handles lots of formats. Still a work in progress, but when it works, it works well.

[Krispy Kritter]

Super works well with flv.

You also need to keep in mind that flv files have totally shitty quality to begin with, and conversion (of any file type) further reduces the quality. The best quality you will ever have is with the file in its original form.