InpaintDelogo error message

[Hunk91]

Hi everybdy, I tried to play with InpaintDelogo in order to remove a watermak on a video.

I use this simple script :

#Opening of the video file named ina.mp4
FFMpegSource2("in.mp4")

#Applying Inpaint Delogo on the whole screen
InpaintDelogo(mask="ina.bmp", Loc="0,0,-0,-0")

Here is the video file with 2 masks. The first one named ina.bmp is the watermark with its actual colors, and the second one named ina2.bmp is the mask with only 2 colors (black=background, white=watermark)

The problem is that I have an error when I want to open my script on VirtualDub2 :

Unexpected character '['
inpaintDelogo.avsi line 2641, column 37

I have this error on 32bit version and 64 bit version.

Can somebody please share some light on this error?

I think I have all the plugins needed. My version of InpaintDelogo script is v3.6

Please have a nice day

best regards

[VoodooFX]

In the empty avs script type this -> "Version()" and post output of it.

[Hunk91]

Hello VoodooFX , thank you for your reply.

Here are the informations requested

AviSynth+ 3.5 (r3043, master, i386)
(c) 2000-2015 Ben Rudiak-Gould, et al.
http://avisynth.nl
(c) 2013-2020 AviSynth+ Project

Thank you

Best regards

[VoodooFX]

AviSynth+ 3.5 (r3043, master, i386)

And what is the required version?

[Hunk91]

OK got it. Version required 3.7.2. I will update Avisynth+

Thank you very much VoodooFX

Best regards

[Hunk91]

Thank you VoodooFX, now it works after updating to AviSynth+ 3.7.2 instead of 3.5

I had also to add those plugins :
- AvsInpaint : http://avisynth.nl/index.php/AvsInpaint
- Neo_FFT3D : http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Neo_FFT3D

Please have a nice day

Best regards

[Hunk91]

I'm back with InPaintDelogo.

I could proceed a video and the result is OK (better than I expected). I think the settings I use for InpaintDelogo in my script should be improved. I would like to know if someone here could help me in order to get a better result.

In the package (INA.zip) you will find :
- the first frame of the video which contains the logo on a black background (1stframe.bmp)
- the mask I use (ina-mask.bmp) which is 1stframe.bmp edited in order to have the logo in white instead of light grey.
- The video I want to proceed (ina.mp4)
- The script used : (INA_logo_removing.avs)

side note : the mask (ina-mask.bmp) is inside c:\mask folder

Here is the script I use :

#Opening of video file with audio track
FFMpegSource2("ina.mp4",atrack=1)

#Removing logo with InpaintDelogo and ina-mask.bmp as mask
InpaintDelogo(mask="c:\mask\ina-mask.bmp", Loc="0,0,-0,-0")

In order to see the problem you can go to frame 490 and see the text is deformed because of the Delogo.

The text you should read is : NIVEAU DES RETRAITES

Please have nice day

best regards

[VoodooFX]

I could proceed a video and the result is OK (better than I expected). I think the settings I use for InpaintDelogo in my script should be improved. I would like to know if someone here could help me in order to get a better result.

Problem is that you are inpainting instead of deblending.
Once I removed this "ina" logo, but I didn't kept the masks.
To advice you more, I would need full original video with this logo, maybe the multiple videos with this logo as your sample doesn't look like a very suitable candidate for analysis.

[Hunk91]

Thank you VoodooFX for your reply.

Unfortunatly I have just those 1 to 2 minutes clips to work with that you can have on http://mediaclip.ina.fr

What would be the suitable length of the video in order to make à good analysis ?

Thanks a lot

Best regards

[VoodooFX]

Why do you need to delogo those short samples?

What would be the suitable length of the video in order to make à good analysis ?

Depends from how many suitable frames for analysis there are, could be one minute, could be two hours...
How many those clips do you have?

[Hunk91]

In one clip my wife's father is interviewed and the logo is just in the middle of his face. And with the mask used it just looks like a water drop was on the camera during the shooting.
In another clip, my best friend is interviewed, so if I can have the right mask and settings I would be able to "delogoed" those videos and offer them clean clips of their prestations on TV.
As for the clips, I can have as many clips as needed. I can download them using firefox and videodownload helper plugin.

Thanks a lot

Best regards

[VoodooFX]

Download them ~10-20, zip them and upload to Wetransfer or Mega.
As probably in these clips there are no solid frames then look for clips with movement through various backgrounds instead of the static talking heads.