cutting text from video

[kay]

Hey I am wondering if there is a free or atmost cost efficient way for me to cut the text out of this anime video. This is the particular frame I want to have the text removed on.

The animation is a still picture that scrolls from left to right and the text follows. I have seen things just like this done before, but I don't know that if the person(s) who've done the ediits had very advanced stuff.
Help would be grateful.

[gadgetguy]

If I understand your description, at some point each part of the still is visible without text in the way. If so, it can be done with AviSynth but it will take a lot of work using crop()s and StackHorizontal()s.

An alternative would be to extract the frames in VirtualDub and use a photo editor to cut and paste to clean up each frame, then recompile. Or piece together the entire original still and recreate the scan effect.

Of course, either way it will require reencoding so there will be a quality hit.

[AlanHK]

You might try the MSU subtitle remover

[kay]

gadgetguy: Would all that work be required for just that one frame? That's all I need. I don't have any photoeditting program at the moment so I might try the option with AviSynth. Thanks


AlanHK: So that will manage to take all of that text away without ruining the picture?

[AlanHK]

AlanHK: So that will manage to take all of that text away without ruining the picture?

It will try, but it can't be perfect. If you really want a perfect image, you'll have to capture it frame by frame and edit it in Photoshop or equivalent.