removing subtitles.

[SteamBird505]

as a new newbie .... in the past ew weeks I have tried to do more assimilating that a whole herd of Borg....but somewhere in my perusal of programmes, websites,help files etc,. I recall seeing something about being able to remove sub titles by splitting them into a text file that can be dumped.
Question....is this possible and what do I need to do this?

As an after thought to my many followers and fans... HiYa Setrip !
WHY do some people offer DVD downloads on a certain virus laden "person to person" website/system... like men in black 2... buts its really episode 2 of Mr Ed or whatever, waddafa missed?

Karen

[setarip]

To eliminate subtitles from .AVI videos

If you are fortunate enough to have the subtitles appearing below the movie image (rather than across the image itself, you can "erase" the subtitles by using VirtualDub as follows (it's not as complicated as it sounds):

1) Load the .AVI into VirtualDub
2) Set "Audio" to "Direct Stream Copying"
3) Set "Video" to "Full Processing Mode"
4) From under the "Video" dropdown menu, select "Compression" and select the same codec and settings that were used for the original .AVI
5) From under the "Video" dropdown menu, select "Filters"
6) Click on the "Add" radio button
7) Doubleclick on the "Null transform" filter
8) Click on the "Cropping" radio button
9) Enter the proper amount in the "Y2 offset" (at lower left) to cut off the subtitles
10) Click on "OK"
11) Click on the "Add" radio button
12) Doubleclick on the "Resize" filter
13) Under "New width and height" enter the NEW dimensions of your cropped video (e.g. 720x440)
14) Select "Precise bicubic"
15) Put a checkmark in "Expand frame and letterbox image"
16) Set "frame width" and "frame height" to the ORIGINAL dimensions (e.g. 720x480)
17) Click on "OK" (brings you back to primary "Filters" screen" and then click on "OK" (to get back to main VirtualDub screen)
18) From the "File" dropdown menu, select "Save AVI" and save with a NEW filename

Let us know of your success ;>}

[SteamBird505]

SUB TITLES?

Hi Setarip,
Thanks for the info.......no..the subtitles are in fact to languages and one above the other and overlaid across the actual picture frame....
I have printed out your info for my ever increasing crib sheet files and will try them out tomaorrow..(Saturday)..unless I hear different.

Karen

[setarip]

"Thanks for the info"

My pleasure ;>}

"the subtitles are in fact to languages and one above the other and overlaid across the actual picture frame"

As far as I know, you are then, unfortunately, out of luck (unless someone's come up with a GREAT algorithm for a compensating eraser)...