program to superpose an animated image over a video?

[supercain]

The whole video is the intro hehe. The logo sequence is just a small portion of it. I can join it later but im afraid it might lose quality. The format is avi.

[poisondeathray]

The whole video is the intro hehe. The logo sequence is just a small portion of it. I can join it later but im afraid it might lose quality. The format is avi.

How is it 1GB then? The video you uploaded was <3MB . Even uncompressed it wouldn't be close to 1GB

And how did you load it into vegas ? As h.264/AVI ?

It's not an editing format and didn't use edit friendly encoding settings, that's why it's sluggish. Even with a decent system , you usually have to render to preview

[supercain]

Yes, the problem is that it was originally in mkv and since Vegas cant open that format i had to convert it to avi using h.264 lossless in order to keep as much quality as possible. The video i uploaded was compressed with h.264 at CFR 28. I made it small so i could upload it for you to see it.

[poisondeathray]

Your sample is messed up too. It looks to be processed incorrectly - notice duplicate frames every 5th frame. Notice the framerate is 29.97.

[poisondeathray]

Yes, the problem is that it was originally in mkv and since Vegas cant open that format i had to convert it to avi using h.264 lossless in order to keep as much quality as possible. The video i uploaded was compressed with h.264 at CFR 28. I made it small so i could upload it for you to see it.

ok that makes sense .

If you want better editing performance use ut video codec . It's many times faster for decoding speed than x264lossless even using --tune fastdecode and other options

[supercain]

I dont know why. I compressed using virtualdub. But anyway, i just wanted it to show you what i want to do.

[poisondeathray]

i just wanted it to show you what i want to do.

I think I have an idea of what you want to do, but it's not very easy for a beginner to do (if you want it to look good). It's not as simple as masking and using and overlay.

You have to do this title animation from basically scratch because of the issues listed earlier.

-You also have to decide what you want to do with the small ?Japanese characters - do you want to replace them with english or other language? .

-And decide how you want the logo to breakup at the end, and how it transitions

- you also have to clean up your replacement logo (there is ringing noise , chroma noise), and it's too small - if you scale it up without fixing it, the logo will look "dirty"

There are probably a dozen other issues, but those are just off the top of my head

[supercain]

I know it wont be easy but well, its a good thing to start with and get some experience with the program. The small japanese characters are fine, i already covered them up with Aegisub and they look great. The logo splitting up into the small bright stones is the complicated part i think. If simulating that animation with the new logo happens to be really difficult at the end i might also just leave it as it is and have instead my logo fade out into the original logo for the very last frame before it starts the transformation into the stones. As for the logo image, this is a clean version in a bigger resolution:

https://forum.videohelp.com/images/imgfiles/QS0nV.png

[budwzr]

Thank you, man. Because im having a problem. Seems like my video is a little too heavy for Vegas. The image jumps and goes delayed when i play it. I really doubt its because of my computer, since i have an Alienware Aurora. The file is near 1GB. Is it okay?

Thank you!

You have Vegas PRO 11, right?

HitFilm? Hahaha.

[supercain]

Yes, mine is Vegas PRO 11.

[budwzr]

Is this the general idea?

(See Below)

[supercain]

Not actually. The new logo has to have the same animation than the blue logo that appears after the flash and then grows bigger. The golden letters below are okay the way they are. I just want to replace the blue logo with mine.

[budwzr]

How about this one?

(See Below)

[supercain]

Yes! thats more like it. The only problem is the star that comes and lands over the logo. Can Vegas make it appear it lands on the new logo so it doesnt get covered by it?

[budwzr]

Like This? Needs fine tuning, but nobody will have seen the original, except you, so nothing to compare to. Right? Doesn't have to be perfect.

(See Newest Below)

[budwzr]

Here's the files and project. I can still fine-tune it tomorrow. See what you can do.

(See Newest Below)

[budwzr]

Thank you, man. Because im having a problem. Seems like my video is a little too heavy for Vegas. The image jumps and goes delayed when i play it. I really doubt its because of my computer, since i have an Alienware Aurora. The file is near 1GB. Is it okay?

Switch the preview window to "Preview/Auto".

[supercain]

Hehe, unfortunately many people know the original by now. They dont understand Japanese so thats why i want to offer a full translation. Your video is very close to what i need. A little more tuning and it will look great. I will try seeing what can i do as you say and keep you posted. Thank you so much for your help.

[budwzr]

Hahaha, so it's a cult film. Yeah, let me sleep on it. My brain is sharper in the AM.

[supercain]

The preview window is already set to "Preview/Auto" but it still lags a lot, so much i cant stand it. You dont have any lag problems with the video i uploaded?

[budwzr]

The preview window is already set to "Preview/Auto" but it still lags a lot, so much i cant stand it. You dont have any lag problems with the video i uploaded?

No lag for me. And I'm on a laptop.

[supercain]

Then i dont know whats the problem. Anyway, i gave up on Vegas and now im trying on Adobe After Effects which seems pretty straight forward. The transformation sequence was easy to do. Now im figuring out how to do the rest. At least there is no lag this time. I will let you know how it develops. Thank you.

[budwzr]

OK, well here's my latest so far. Keep us posted. If you decide to just totally redo it, it might look too "new". So you might have to roughen it up a little.

(See Below)

[supercain]

That looks pretty cool. Thanks. Lets see what can i accomplish with After Effects. So far i managed to get the transformation sequence right. Now the problem is going to be that shooting star. I just realized its gonna land on the wrong place of the new logo. It should land on top of the A or by the corner where the other stars are. So i either recreate the whole star landing sequence or i modify the logo so the original star lands right in place. I think the second option is the easier...

[budwzr]

Yeah, that's how you move forward. Here's another version using Vegas Pro.

[budwzr]

Here's a still for wallpaper.

[budwzr]

That looks pretty cool. Thanks. Lets see what can i accomplish with After Effects. So far i managed to get the transformation sequence right. Now the problem is going to be that shooting star. I just realized its gonna land on the wrong place of the new logo. It should land on top of the A or by the corner where the other stars are. So i either recreate the whole star landing sequence or i modify the logo so the original star lands right in place. I think the second option is the easier...

Post it when you're done.

[supercain]

Hi,

i managed to make the first sequence but im having problems with the second one. The problem comes when i import an image into the composition. AE is not importing it correctly. The image is about 0.8 pixels smaller but in a weird radio. Why is it that? i take a snapshot of the video as it looks on AE at 100% zoom. I edit the image in Photoshop and save it. But when i import it into the composition it doesnt match the source. Please help me out in this one too.

Thank you.

[poisondeathray]

right click the image in the clip bin and interpret the aspect ratio to whatever you want

[supercain]

Nevermind, it was fixed when i changed quality to "wire" or whatever the dotted line means. The odd thing is that all the other imported images are set to "best" or whatever the smooth line icon means, so it makes no sense to me.