Subtitles on an AVI file

[_Odin99]

I was wondering if there is a way to take the subtitles out of an AVI file. I have been able to put subs in but not the other way around.


any help would be greatly apprieciated

[StarRide]

If the subtitles r pernament on the avi file, it is impossible to take them out becos the picture behind the text is lost already.

U can crop the bottom part of the movie...

or maybe u can try out the delogo filter in virtualdub... i never tried it and i dunno if it will work...

or maybe u can edit the picture frame by frame, painting over the text with the right colours depending of the background...
premire can probably let u do this, or u can extract the movie frame by frame in bmp or jpeg and use a paint program to do it, then load image sequence in virtualdub

[setarip]

To eliminate subtitles from (DivX-compressed or other) .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 (or one of its variants)
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 ;>}

[_Odin99]

WOw, thanks a Ton Setarip, I follow your instructions to the letter and pulled off almost all of the subtitles, the only ones left are the ones that some how popped up into the actually movie footage ( dont ask me how) but they are few and far between.


cant thank you enough
Odin

[setarip]

"WOw, thanks a Ton Setarip"

My pleasure ;>}