Adding Text to a Single Frame

[dogberry578]

Hi I would like to be able to add text to a single frames in a movie. I have several movies that I watch all the time and would like to add text as a form of hypnosis to help me stop smoking. A friend tells me Im talking about subliminal messaging. Is this possible and what do I need. Many thanks in advance for any help.

dogberry578

[Cornucopia]

Sure you can do that. AVISynth and Virtualdub can do that with sub/logo/txt effect overlay plugins, plus just about any standard NLE. It's just a matter of narrowing down the timing of your "effect" from the normal ~1-5 sec "transitions" to just 1 frame (or just 1 field). Note: this will be very tedious.

Scott

[Alex_ander]

Here's THE solution for AviSynth:

LoadPlugin("...\ApplyEvery.dll")
AVISource("...\video.avi")
ApplyEvery(25,"""ApplyRange(0, 1, "Subtitle","Smoking kills!",350,250,0,0,"arial",40,$ff3366,$0066ff,5)""")

Plugin here:
http://avisynth.org/stickboy/ApplyEvery.zip

I tested it on a 720x576 clip, 350 and 250 here are absolute x/y positions of the writing. Since ApplyRange should be used inside, you can't remove any parameter even if you want its default state. Begin adjustment with only changing for your paths, be careful.

[vhelp]

Yeah, ~!~ Happy New Years ~!~ guys

Anyway.

That just so happens to be one of my favorite Scrooge, by Albert Finney. I do like some of
the other old'es too, cause they do have their place in the history of ERA's and things, but
this one is my childhood favorite. Yeah, he did a great job in the adaptation. I ddin't realize
he did many other things -- no wonder he looks so familiar on tv. Anyway.

Also, I didn't know that there was a consortium of Subtitles that one could actually Download.
Its funny, cause just the other day, AMC had air'ed Working Girl and they posted
their DVD TV comments (or whatever they call them) in subtitles, and I thought, 'what a great
way to add this in as a -special bunus feature- or something, in an upcomiing project for this
movie.

Unfortunately, I ran out of Fuji VHS tapes and I couldn't record it. I think its one of those,
once in a life time, for these broadcast, so I know I can not expect it to come back on, later.
Anyway.

Still, it would have made a great (long and drooling) project. After recording it, I'd've captured
it; and laid it out on a time line; and captured only the bottom portion of the video, to pull out
the white text; and then post-process it for better color separation; and then run it through a
OCR or something to get the text into an actual text file or something like that. Well, that's as
far as I got in the idea for AMC 's DVD TV special features like this. Course, then afterwards, I
would have put text subtitle text into an actual clean video where its not so masked as
it was on AMC 's broadcast of that movie.

Q: I'm sure there's no place for one to download these ??

Alex_ander, your plugin (if that's yours) may come in handy at a later time. Thanks
for sharing the mini-micro guide on its usage, here !!

Cheers,
-vhelp 4491

[AlanHK]

You can do it as a subtitle.

Create it manually in Subtitle Workshop; or if you want a lot of lines periodically, make it in say, Excel. Then you could experiment with different fonts, change the duration, colours, etc easily, and turn it off if you just want to with the movie.

[dogberry578]

Hiya People

Thank you all so much for your time and effort to help me out its very much appreciated.

Thanks again

Chris