Removing Bugs From Video

[shokas]

Is there any software available that either masks or removes the bugs (station name, id etc, usually in the lower right corner of the screen) in video?



Thanks,
Kevin.

[zoobie]

There's "delogo" and "MSU Subtitle and logo remover" filters available for VirtualDub...

[theewizard]

those 'LOGOS' are often refered to as 'water marks'

I never heard them called bugs, before your post

I have never used the 'delogo' filter

the station ID logo on a recording doesn't bother me, its also there when i watch it live or it wouldn't be in my recording

[shokas]

Thanks for the info on the delogo filter. Already got it working. As far as me calling them bugs, that's what i've always known them as. If you check out wikipedia, depending on where you are, they call them a bug, DOG, watermark etc.




Kevin.

[AlanHK]

You can use delogo in Avisynth: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=280003

I use NoLogo mostly now. http://www.geocities.com/mrtibsvideo/Logotools.html

It's old (so needs the LoadPlugin hack) but very easy to use. Here's an example script:

loadplugin("P:\AviSynth 2.5\Old\LoadPluginEx.dll")
loadplugin("P:\AviSynth 2.5\Old\logotools.dll")
logo=ImageSource("logo108.png").ConverttoYUY2()
clip=AVISource("tw-108.avi",false).ConverttoYUY2()
NoLogoAuto(clip,logo,1)
ConvertToYV12()
LanczosResize(720,576,0,0,640,352)

The file "logo106.png" is a screen capture with only the logo on a black background.
If there isn't a frame like that, find a frame where the logo is on black and paint out the rest of the frame.
There are other versions of the filter on the site, with more parameters, but the "auto" version is quite sufficient to make most logos almost unnoticeable.