Hi! I'm interested in superimposing my personal logo in a VCD project of 50 minutes. Can somebody please guide me, HOW2.

-- naive (naive@naive.com), February 16, 2000

Answers

You do not say what process you use to make the VCD - if your using an NLE program like Premiere 5.1c the watermark can be added to one of the superimpose tracks during the edit and rendered from the time line using a plugin encoder.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 16, 2000.

SORRY ! I should have mentioned that I use a Real Time Mpeg-1 encoder and VideoPack 4 to create VCD's.

-- naive (naive@naive.com), February 16, 2000.

Think you have an unsolvable problem with what your using, an editing phase/option to superimpose a "see through image" is missing in the process chain.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 16, 2000.

Okay, can I do something to create a scroll message, like text scrolling from the right to the left at the bottom of the screen ? Please enlighten me.

-- naive (naive@naive.com), February 17, 2000.

My comments of the previous posting apply, you need a high end editing interface to achieve that.

Scrolling or crawling titles can be very jerky when used in a VCD - I have stopped using them because of that reason, fine with video tape but very poor in a vcd particularly on the computer.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 17, 2000.

Ross, thanks for the input. Can my problem be resolved if I use AVI capture, edit with premier and encode as mpeg-1 VCD Compliant ?

-- naive (naive@naive.com), February 17, 2000.

Hi

Maybe you would consider adding your personal logo to the front of this clip just this one time. Sort of 'saving' the day kind of situation.

For future projects, you can capture in avi, edit in NLE and superimpose your logo on the timeline and then encode in mpeg.

Here are alternatives:

First Workaround Method You can use iFilmEdit to 'cut' out a portion (about 10-15 secs) from the front of your encoded mpeg video and save this file as 001.mpg. Again using iFilmEdit, 'cut' the balance of your mpeg video and save it as 002.mpg.

Use Ulead Video Studio 3 to superimpose a title on 001.mpg and save it as 001title.mpg.

Once completed, use iFilmEdit to 'join' 001title.mpg and 002.mpg to make one continuous mpeg video.

If you use burners like WinOnCD and ECDC Creator, you don't need to join the rejoin as both videos will play one after the other after you burn if your playback is on standalone player. If your playback is on PC, you need to rejoin both videos.

But please be aware that the mpeg quality will drop slightly so it really depends on the quality that you are starting out with.

Second Workaround Method Use a still image or capture some highlights in avi format from your video. Use a NLE like Premiere or MSP to do some titling and add your personal logo and encode this to mpeg with Panasonic or Xing.

Join this new title mpeg with your previous mpeg and you can still have your title - but only in front (better than nothing).

Contact me offline if you need clarifications.

NT

-- NT (i1x@nightmail.com), February 17, 2000.

Yes if you have premiere, perfect answer because its one of the best NLE programs with quality professional output. The Panasonic plugin does work quite well with it but may give you trouble with slow pans/wobbly verticals but so do a lot of other programs and it takes time to get around that.

It will simply be a requirememt to design your logo and if you have Photoshop 5.5 you can import it as a layer and go over the top on a transition track, better contact off line for details of that if you are not fully experienced in doing this sort of thing.

Cheers

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 18, 2000.

naive, use videotrope with crack from http://astalavista.box.sk or use axagon composer, freeware. Both are available from www.downloads.com under video section, they support avi files. (you're not going to put an annoying logo in the top right hand corner are you? This trick just aggravates people, particularly if you're watching a film on a 15" monitor..........)

-- andy (andy@snes.freeserve.co.uk), February 20, 2000.