Encoding Intro

[Heiligs Bleche]

Hi, i do not really know in which forum this goes and pleas do not beat me for my bad english ... i'm german :cool:

I want to encode a movie and before this movie there should be a picture with "encoded by Heiligs Bleche"
I made a .bmp picture with the text, so my question now is how to encode it that it will fit into the movie.
That means:
I want to encode a movie and this should consist of the intro ( small picture ) and the actual dvd encoded movie

- Movie
- Intro
- DVD Encoded Movie

So how can i do that ?
I thought of that the picture appears 5 seconds and then the movie will play - it is all 1 .avi file

What do i have to do ??
I explained it a little bit complicated but i hope you'll understand it and help me ...

thx for that !!!

greets
Heiligs Bleche

[jggimi]

I've done this with Vdub's Logo filter, which uses .bmp input. My process was convoluted, but worked:
Demux the original avi into separate audio and video files (I used Nandub, "Save WAV.." to save the .mp3 audio, then No Audio and Direct Stream Copy to save the video-only .avi file).

Opened the video-only in Vdub, and created a short, uncompressed AVI of 2 seconds worth of the video, using Vdub's Home/End keys. 50 frames = 2 seconds with PAL, 48/60 frames =2.002 seconds with NTSC at either 23.976 or 29.97fps, respectively. If you want a different length, select it and do your math for the audio delay.

Opened the short dummy AVI, and set up the Logo filter to point to my .bmp. I used either 0% or 100% opacity, can't remember which, but check the preview window. After setting up the filter, created a 1-pass DivX encode and created a new, 48 frame avi with my bmp in every frame. Filters require full processing mode.

In Nandub, I opened the little video, appended the video-only main content, then muxed the audio using 2002 milliseconds delay.
If you don't care for Nandub, feel free to use another tool, such as VirtualDubMod.

[butterw]

is the following correct (I've never tried it out yet) ? :
- Create intro with virtualdub + Logo filter. Keep video and sound uncompressed (or at least with low compression)
- encode DVD movie.
- convert intro to adequate format (fps, resolution, sound)
- append DVD movie
- direct stream copy.

alternatively if you are using avisynth to encode the DVD movie, convert, join and encode (intro+movie) all-in-one.

[Heiligs Bleche]

ok much thx for your help , i will try it out on the weekend

[crusty]

There are actually plenty of ways to do this.
One of the easiest ways would be to use the 'subtitle' filter built-in into avisynth.
With that you can simply apply your name as a subtitle to a specific number of frames.
I would suggest for this a range in the start or (preferably) the endcredits.

Take a look at: http://www.avisynth.org/index.php?page=Subtitle

There are of course many different ways to do this with other filters as well, but this looks to me like the easiest and most non-intrusive way. The way described in the above posts will simply increase the filesize and you could use those megabytes to increase the quality of your rip.

Hi, i do not really know in which forum this goes and pleas do not beat me for my bad english

This type of question is best asked in either the 'Virtualdub' forum or the 'Avisynth usage' forum, as it has very little to do with encoding, and much more with editing. And your English is fine :)

[frank]

Quatsch, alles viel zu umständlich!
Für ein ein einfaches Startbild erstelle eine bmp. Suche bei Doom9 nach mpeg4cd.exe. Damit kannst du das bmp einbinden und sogar einen Autostart machen. Gilt natürlich für DIVX.