Logoaway removes TV Logos - Studio User Interface based on: VirtualDub-Filter “logoaway” by Chris Wojdon - homepage   Used files:       Vdub2RTFx       logoaway v40beta3.zip     original vdubfilter Installation: Save the files into the folder: ..\pinnacle\Studio 10\plugins\rtfx\virtualdubfx

On TV-shows you always find these anyoing TV-logos.
Now it is easy to remove these logos with the Virtualdub-Filter “Logoaway”.

Installation:

1. if not already installed you need the Vdub-to-RTFX-Shell Vdub2RTFx . Download this file and copy it in the directory “...Pinnacle\Studio 9\Plugins\RTFx\virtualdubfx” (if this directory does not exits, please create it)
2. download the “Logoaway_filter logoaway v40beta3.zip “ You’ll find it and many other  Filter in the VirtualDub-Filter List.
   Open the ZIP-File and extract the file “logoaway.vdf” into the just created directory  “...Pinnacle\Studio 9\Plugins\RTFx\virtualdubfx”
3. Start Studio

Using the filter

After launching Studio 9, you will see a new category in the effectslist “Virtualdub FX”.

The filter is available in two versions:

• the standard verrsion with the virtualdub user interface, providing all features of the filter
• the EZ_ user interface, providing selected functions in the Studio effect user interface

Use the filter on a video where you want to remove the Logo.

The EZ_ Userinterface

The EZ_ userinterface will look similar to following:

With the sliders you define in which area a logo should be removed. To make handling easier a dotted border is added to the video to show this area. This border is switched on and off with the control “Show Border”

With the sliders for X- and Y-position we now move the area until it cobers the TV-logo. With the slider for “width” and “heigth” we adjust the size of the area until the logo is completey covered. Don’t make the area too big!

 The Logo is gone..

Don’t forget: Switch off “Show Border” , otherwise you will see the border on your rendered video.

The result looks great. No TV-logo anymore.´

The virtualdub Userinterface

You will now see the edit window for the effect. Virtualdub-Filters provide their own dialog for configuration that cannot be displayed directly by Studio. With clicking on the “Edit-Button” (red circle) you open the configuration dialog of the filter.

(Click on the picture to enlarge)

Configure the filter and click “OK”. Now you can preview the effect in Studio 9 preview window.

No crash? Does it still work? Great!!

Unfortunately a preview during editing the dialog box is not possible yet. With some effort it should be possible but the RTFX-Interface is still in beta-phase and this function is not working as intended (or as I expect).

The “logoaway”-filter is a good example for another issue:

The “logoaway”-filter allows, as the name implies, to remove the logo of the TV-station from a video. You can find more details how the filter works and the filter itself on the authors homepage:

http://www.republika.pl/vander74/virtualdub/ladocs301/logoaway.html

or

http://republika.pl/voidon/virtualdub/

As a fast hint: You must specify a border around the logo. “Logo border position -X,Y” define the upper-left corner of the box and “logo border size - Width, Heigth” the width and height of the border. If you click the checkbox “visible border “, you can see the border in the preview. You have to play with the values a little bit until the border is in the right position. Unfortunately you have to click “OK” after every change and to reopen the dialog-box. Leave the other values as they are unless you know what to change.

We would like to get rid of the “Pro7”-logo in this video. After adding the logoaway-filter and checking the “visible borders”-box you will see a small rectangle on the preview screen. While changing the value for the borders you can move the rectangle over the logo. You can see the values I used in the dialog box above.

And this is the result: No logo anymore!!

After the preview is ok we want to render the final video in high resolution. But what is this? The logo is back again.

Here we ran into the issue that Studio 9 has different resolutions for the preview screen and for the final render. In germany for PAL the preview is 360 x 288 and the final DV-Video is 720 x 576. What you have to do is to multiply the X and Y value you found for the preview screen with 2 to get the right position for the final video. This is a little bit tricky but this is the way it is and I do not see a solution for this issue unless I have the source code of the filter and adapt it.

I hope you have fun with the plugin.

Limitations of this version

• no preview during configuration
• fast forward and backward not supported
• correct working of the effect only if the playback starts at the beginning of a scene
• no support for Alpha-Channel (effect cannot be used on titles)