Colouring Black bars and inserting logos

[Albion]

As this is my very first post I thought I might make it unusual.
Not even sure if what I,m asking is an encoding or Authoring related topic.
Anyway here goes.

When I used to record Films off the TV with my old video recorder back in
the 1980's I remember one film:A Hammer Gothic by the name of Horror of Dracula.During one particular broadcast,the overscan was reduced in order
to reveal the opening credits.Instead of the resultant black bars above and
below,the broadcaster changed them to RED.
Considering the theme I remember being taken by this.

At present I re-encode my DVD's in order to reduce overscan on my interlaced TV display.
For this I use DVD2DVD (DVD2SVCD),TEMPEnc,SPRUCEUP for authoring and NERO for burning.

This is a bit of a frills question really.I'd like to do the same with my DVD of Horror of Dracula,only do it for the whole film rather than just the credit sequence.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what additional software/plugins I might need,or if indeed such an undertaking is at all possible.If it is I'd like to do something similar in respect of putting motives,lettering and logos on the black borders also.

:thanks: Albion

[manono]

Hi-

You can add black around the outside easily enough. FitCD has a "Blocks Overscan" option you can turn on to give you an AviSynth script with the black added. It's been awhile since I've used DVD2SVCD, but there's a way to pause it to edit the .avs it generates. You probably already know how to do that:

http://shh.sysh.de/fitcd.html

Oh, you want logos also? A bit trickier. You can fool around with the AviSynth Subtitle filter, or create them using something like SubStation Alpha or Subtitle Studio or some such if text logos are good enough. Picture type logos are a bit harder. The Overlay command in AviSynth will do it, but I'd get more experience first before trying that, if I were you. There may be other ways as well, but since I don't stick logos in my videos, I haven't had much experience.

Have a look at the AviSynth filters and you may find something that will do what you want:

http://www.avisynth.org/

[Albion]

Thanks for your reply Mano.I,ll have a look at Avisynth filter options.
In terms of the boarders...yes I can already produce those in exactly the way you have mentioned.My real question is can they be coloured red,purple,green etc to fit the theme of the film your watching.As I say its
got a great novelty value and I've seen it used on credit sequences on broadcast TV.I quite liked the effect.

[unskinnyboy]

@Albion, For adding borders via AVISynth, what you need to use is the AddBorders() (http://www.avisynth.org/AddBorders) filter.

Look at the syntax of the function:
AddBorders(clip clip, int left, int top, int right, int bottom [, int color])
The last parameter is what will do the trick for you. While adding the borders, you can specify what color you want them to be. Look at this (http://www.avisynth.org/ColorPresets) chart to get the color code for the color you want and specify accordingly.

[Albion]

Unskinny/Mano

Looks like I need to find out a lot about Avisynth filters.

Your direction is appreciated.