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Opening credits / letterboxing

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Hey, I was wondering if anybody could help me or point me in the right direction to software (mac or pc) that could help me to remove the opening title credits of a television show. I am editing a show into a film and looking for a way to get rid of them. I also have questions on letterboxing video. If I cannot get rid of the credits then I would prefer to change the film from 4:3 full frame to 4:3 letterboxed... but I would like to be able to move the video so I could choose what goes between the bars (similar to a widescreen pan and scan). Thanks in advance guys!!

P.S. - This is in relation to the fanedit I am talking about doing in the fanedit Idea section
 
ULEAD MEDIA STUDIO PRO has a high quality moving pass, with which you can zoom and/or movie the pciture to whatever size and place in pretty great quality.
 
Thanks a bunch mang!

I have my powermac and an old IBM 20 gig laptop running windows 2000. This program will work on it correctamundo?
 
One last question. If I wanted to letterbox part of a video and progressively zoom out, could I? And could I use one video and do a sort of automated movement of what I am P&Sing? Or do I need to chop of the video?
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you can crop first and move then, but still in one encoding step.
 
boon23 said:
you can crop first and move then, but still in one encoding step.
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I just spent the last two hours seperating the videos :-x

Buts its good to know now. All of my files are MOV files. What is a program I can use (Mac preffered but PC ok) that can convert them into something readable on my old PC. Lets say AVI or MPEG. Thanks a bunch.
 
I don't know about MAC software. TMPGenc is freeware and des the job in good quality.
 
boon23 said:
I don't know about MAC software. TMPGenc is freeware and des the job in good quality.
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Wow I haven't used TMPGENC in so long. Thanks for the reminder. Okay, well, I guess I am gonna start stringing these together and making the video. I also plan to use Vegas to create a 5.1 Surround Track. After that I may have some more questions about authoring the DVD and the best way to do it without losing quality on the video (cause when I use iDVD or Toast Titanium it reduces the quality drasticly and gives it a real boxy look. I was going to use Ulead DVD MovieFactory unless there is something better.)


Edit - Another way to explain my problem is I used Quicktime Pro to make mov files of all of the segments I needed. My old IBM has the newest version of quicktime but the files come up white without sound. I can not connect the internet to it. Any suggestions?
Thanks again guys
 
Using FFMPEGXX to convert. I was wondering if anybody knew where I could get my hands on good quality versions of the two 'Power Rangers In Space" episodes that featured the Turtles. I know the second was Shell Shock.

This dvd will be a 2 discer. It will have a nice amount of special features methinks.
 
Heeelp. Okay, so finally iMovie and FCP are working. So I am going to finish the titles and shebang. But, I remember someone telling me I should normalize all the audio in Ulead before doing a 5.1 mix in Sony Vegas. Is this so?

I also threw this into my actual Turtles 4 post but had no luck getting a response
 
well, normalizing will result in a well hearable sound file. Once you have the 5.1, it is pretty hard to increase the volume.
 
Thanks Boon, I knew I could count on an answer from you. Once I toss in the intro and end credits I'll export it to a mpeg2 and then make the trailer for the Nightmare DVD.
 
Okay, I finally have everything done. I made intro titles and ending credits and I made them the same size as the source video (720x576) and they appear a tiny bit clunky but I honestly don't mind myself. Now I need to (as you put it Boon) frameserve the video. I want this to fit a single layer DVD-R along with a trailer. How big with the file be after I do this whole frameserving thing and how will the quality be effected. Thanks!!!
 
use a bitrate calculator and you will exactly know the size you are getting.
It works like this:
with the frameserver you see, which bitrate you can use for a SL DVD featuring your audio track(s) and extras (menus).
Set this is the average bitrate for your encoder, then frameserve from your editor to the encoder.
 
boon23 said:
use a bitrate calculator and you will exactly know the size you are getting.
It works like this:
with the frameserver you see, which bitrate you can use for a SL DVD featuring your audio track(s) and extras (menus).
Set this is the average bitrate for your encoder, then frameserve from your editor to the encoder.
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I used the calculator but I am not sure what to do next
what is a good frameserver to use? I am taking it out of Ulead into TMPGENC I guess so how would I go about doing that?
 
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let's assume you got this.
so the calculated average bitrate is: 4906kbit/s

you must have installed debug frameserver before you can frameserve of course. The frameserver will produce a file, which can be opened with tmpgenc
- start tmpgenc (2.5 is freeware)
- use the wizard, select the DVD settings you want

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tmpgenc has its own calculator, CCE doesn't.
- select expert options and see that 2-pass setting is activated
- with ok you should be clear to go now (and this will for sure take a while)
 
Now if I make a 4 gig DVD mpeg2 in TMPGENC when I put it on the dvd (in a program such as DVD Lab Pro) will it only take up 4 gigs of space?
 
After this can I just open this in Sony Vegas and change the audio to 5.1? And if so all I need to do is make menues in DVDLab Pro and throw the 4 gig file and a trailer on it?
 
yes.
I suggest you actually don't use the audio tmpg generates, but the one from your editing software (probabaly PCM) and feed this into vegas.
 
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