In Windows Movie Maker, is this possible?

Cagari · Post by **Cagari** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:44 am

I don't know if anybody has done this before, but I was thinking that this could be a way to easily get rid of subtitles.

Making two black bars(so it's like widescreen, except it's covering the subtitled part of the clip) in an art program that lets you have transparent layers. I've tried it in GIMP, and the only problem is that WMM won't let the transparancy of a layer show, so it's all black instead of being transparent in the middle...(I'm very sorry if you can't get this...I'm not sure how to put it...)

Has anybody done this? And if you have, what format should you save it in? Cropping an episode with VirtualDub is just as useful, but it takes up much more harddrive space than making one picture.

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:22 pm

Easiest thing to do is to use the "null transfer" plugin in VirtualDubMod to create the black boxes you desire.

Or you could just turn subtitles off when you rip the DVDs... You DID rip the DVDs, and didn't steal them off the internets, right?

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:54 pm

BTW, it's a very common practice. Nonetheless, congratulations for thinking it up on your own. Most people don't even try.

Cagari · Post by **Cagari** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:15 am

Ah thank you!
This is for the Advent Children DVD I ripped...I kept the subtitles because I thought that it would affect my DVD...I didn't do it before so...

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:23 am

Cagari wrote:This is for the Advent Children DVD I ripped...I kept the subtitles because I thought that it would affect my DVD...I didn't do it before so...

May I ask what program you used to rip it?

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:11 am

you could also try using an avisynth script with addborder and frameserve if you wanna save space
http://www.avisynth.org/AddBorders