removing text from video

[jriker1]

I am trying to reauthor a purchased DVD I have without any of the subtitles, other languages, additional audio types other than 5.1, or movie previews that are on them. The menus in the DVD are motion movies with the text imbedded into it and a cursor that moves up and down to select the menu elements. Problem I am having is the menu has items to select like Subtitles, or languages or additional features, etc imbedded into the menu video. Is there a tool out there to select an area and have it erase it replacing it with the elements around it?

I have done something like this before with avisynth and some plugins, however the details behind the text itself were static. In this one things move behind the text so need to try and accomodate filling in the image that is going behind where the text used to be.

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

JR

[President]

There is a very difficult and long way. But you can get any quality level for output video, as you like.
You can separate a video stream into bmp sequence (VirtualDub, TMPGEnc) and edit each frame as you like in Photoshop. Then gather them back to AVI without compression (VirtualDub) and encode that AVI with CCE or TMPGEnc.

[chadamir]

If the movie has no subtitles and no other audio, nothing should happen if you press them. Why not just leave them be, the backup is for you and you know what to not push :)

[jriker1]

Thanks for the response. I gave this a try, however since the background is a moving texture, when I pasted the cleaned frames together that section cleaned was jumping all over the place as the background moved. I think I'm going to change the menus to still menus instead of moving and just fix one frame.

There is a very difficult and long way. But you can get any quality level for output video, as you like.
You can separate a video stream into bmp sequence (VirtualDub, TMPGEnc) and edit each frame as you like in Photoshop. Then gather them back to AVI without compression (VirtualDub) and encode that AVI with CCE or TMPGEnc.