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Help Wanted: Pre-ANH rollup for DVD-sourced fan edits?

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I’ve been working on some way to stitch the GOUT rollup onto new footage for making an improved edit, but since all I really have to work with is simple editors like avidemux and vdub… it’s not coming out well, and I’m not sure what route would be best to take.

I’m thinking of possibly doing a whole new rollup, but I don’t really have the tools to do that. Recoloring the existing rollup from the GOUT works, but there’s no stars! (They aren’t really visible on my encode of the GOUT either.)

Unless maybe with ImageMagick or something I can take a bunch of stills, make them all transparent and add a starry background, which just might work o.o…

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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Replying to myself...I figured it out

I made a series of jpgs named nxNNNN.jpg, NNNN being 0000-1941 and a bmp with the backdrop

BASH command (should work in ksh also, needs imagemagick)

for x in *.jpg;do echo -n "${x}"\ ;convert -black-threshold 20000 -transparent black "${x}" png:-|composite -gravity center png:- c.bmp png:"`basename "${x}" .jpg`".png;done

This gives me a series of PNG files that I then load into avisynth with the oneliner

ImageReader("nx%04d.png",0,1941,23.976)

which I load into virtual dub under wine and then encode normally.

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http://www.usotsuki.info/orupx.jpg
Sample clip (13 MB, XviD)

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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Photo looks like shit. No offense.
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Recoloring the existing rollup from the GOUT works, but there's no stars!

What do you mean no stars? The stars are bigger and brighter than the SE.
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It may be because of my aspect correction - they got blurred out by the encode. (704x306 isn't exactly the original resolution.)

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I cropped and resized to that resolution and the stars are just fine.
How do you crop and resize?

If you destroy the stars by resizing the rest of the picture must suffer quite a bit too I guess...
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Lanczos3, I believe...the mencoder documentation says scaler mode 9 is "lanczos"

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)