Video Cropping Question

[Lord_Turkey]

Hey peeps,

I've just finished my 5th AMV and have gone through hiding the subtitles behind text and when I produce the final file its gone jumpy when the other 15 drafts haven't so is they're an easier way to get did of the subtitles - either by cropping the video at the boarder or super imposing one ontop of the existing one using some kind of softwear?

[Scintilla]

Yes; in fact, cropping is usually the preferred method around here:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... efault.htm

[Lord_Turkey]

I tend to cheat, because they're black boarders with subtitles on top of I cover the text with Squares (Wingdings lettter 'n') in two layers.

[Bauzi]

I tend to cheat, because they're black boarders with subtitles on top of I cover the text with Squares (Wingdings lettter 'n') in two layers.

... A bit... yeah ok it´s a method, but there are ways to make it more "professional":
-Add a black picture. You have to set a different position for it, to not place it in the middle of the screen
-There is often freeware stuff or effects wich can add the black borders for you.

[neorose]

I tend to excuse the use of cropping or adding filter over subtitles when watching a AMV as long as I dont see them im happy. One thing that kills me about AMV's is seeing fansub text during the vid,it makes it look cheap and what they say has nothing do to 99% of the time with the vid.

[Lord_Turkey]

thanks peeps, took out all boarders then deleted my credits and re-added them after putting it back through another program and hopefully it ain't gonna jump or mess up my lip syncing

[devilmaykickass]

Wow, people still use hard subbed sources?