pasting a video on video

[Lanshire1]

Hi guys and gals:

I have seen alot of websites talking about the big rave of PIP ( picture in picture).. but that is not what i am trying to do. i downloaded a demo to Vidmex (www.vidmex.com).. and it does exaclty what i want it to do. Unfortunately i do not have the money to buy it yet.

I am looking for some software ( freeware) that would allow me to paste video in video..


Any thoughts?

Randy

[rkr1958]

AVISynth. Free and Powerful but some learning required. The Overlay function can be used to insert a clip into another clip and create a picture in a picture video. I've done this myself several time.

[Lanshire1]

Avisynt, requires coding which i know NOthing about,, don't want to mess with something like that.

[rkr1958]

AVISynth uses scripts, it doesn't require coding. Like I said in my first post, its free but does require an investment in your time to learn. If interested, I'd be happy to post a script (when I get home from work) that I wrote and have used to do what I think you want to do.

Also, I use VirtualDub, another freeware tool, to view and save off these videos.

[Lanshire1]

Yeah that would help!..

Appreciate it!
i use VirtualDUb.. al the time to trim down the vids.. now that is a great piece of software.

Randy

[manono]

Unfortunately i do not have the money to buy it yet.

You want free, but aren't willing to invest some time to learn AviSynth, which can do anything that Vidmex can do, and more? There are tons of things you can do with the Overlay command. Here I took a BMP and added onto it a small video, like a PIP, for use in a menu:

A=ImageSource("E:\Gauri\Menu\Background.bmp")
B=Import("E:\Gauri\Menu\Menu.avs")
Overlay(A,B,X=42,Y=38)

You can find other examples here:

http://avisynth.org/index.php?page=Overlay

[Lanshire1]

Ok you tottaly lost me!

[Lanshire1]

thats way 2 confusing for me!..thanks anyway!

[SLK001]

...but that is not what i am trying to do. i downloaded a demo to Vidmex (www.vidmex.com).. and it does exaclty what i want it to do.

Perhaps is you were clearer on what exactly you wanted to do, we could be of more help. I'm with manono on this one. If you want it cheap and free, AVISynth is definitely the way to go. With MASK, LAYER and OVERLAY, there is almost no limit to what you can do.

[rkr1958]

As promised.

# both clips are 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
# clip 1 is capture of handheld (very shaky) DV of Son's Christmas play
# Clip 2 (base clip) is the deshook, cleaned up video

# Deshook, DeNoised Video (clip 2)
a = AVISource("G:\MUMC_Preschool_Christmas_Show_2005\Song-1.avi",audio = false)
nf = Framecount(a)
fr = Framerate(a)

# Scale Factor for picture in the picture
sf = .4
w = int(720*SF)
h = int(480*SF)
a = a.ConvertToYUY2().bilinearresize(w,h)
a = AddBorders(a,8,8,8,8,color=color_yellow)


# Source (Raw) Video (Clip 1)
b = AVISource("G:\MUMC_Preschool_Christmas_Show_2005\RAW-Song-1.avi",audio = false).trim(0,nf-1).ConvertToYUY2()


# Create Picture in Picture Clip
# Put Filtered Clip to the Upper Left of the Original Clip
clip = Layer(b,a,x=0,y=0)

return clip

Example (one frame)





By the way, the filtered results (i.e., clip 1) was achieved using AVISynth to preprocess the raw video (i.e., de-interlace, bob, ect.). This was fed to VirtualDub and Gunnar Thalin's Deshaker v2.0 filter. This output was further cleaned up using AVISynth denoising filters. I know all this sounds way advance (it did to me at first) but if you invest some time to learning and using AVISynth you'll find (at least I did) that it, along with VirtualDub, will be one of the most powerful and useful tools in your video tool set.

[Lanshire1]

thanks bud!.. if i have trouble i will let ya know!