Remove subtitle from DivX file

[Tikker]

bit of background

with a mini DV camcorder, I pull the video off with windows movie maker, then encode the video as a DivX to save space

usually we'll go in and add transition effects, and some subtitles

sometimes, we'll keep some stuff and then amalgamate the years of video together and add new subtitles, etc etc

somewhere along the way I lost/deleted the original (not part of the plan) and now I'd like to know if there's a way to peel out the subtitles?

I used virtualdub to add them originally (.ssa file) so was hoping there would be an equally easy way (doubtful) to pull them out

normally I'd just use the source, but in this one case it's gone.

[setarip_old]

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 ;>}

[Tikker]

awesome instructions

was able to recover portions of what I was after, but other parts just didn't turn out well

overall I think I got about 65% of what I needed, which is about 65% better than I expected, heh


thanks

[setarip_old]

awesome instructions... thanksYou're quite welcome;>}

Glad to hear of your (partial) success!