Logo remover ideas?

[bgowland]

OK. A bit off-the-wall, but has anyone got any ideas as to removing on-screen channel logos from recordings?

The screenshot attached shows what I mean. Your man here seems to have BBC THREE tatooed on his head. Call me a perfectionist or whatever but I find this sort of thing really distracting - when I'm following a tense scene and dialogue, I don't want to see this sort of thing. It's like the annoying fly buzzing around your head that you can't catch.

The logo seems to be a semi-transparent overlay which is applied before transmission. What would be really cool is an analysis tool that you could teach the level of transparency of the logo and would then invert or enhance the background colours to effectively remove the logo.

It could run as a post-processing task maybe - I'd be quite happy to wait for an hour or so to watch a recording if that damn fly wasn't buzzing around my head.

Or maybe I should just build a bridge and get over it.

Cheers,
Brian

[bgowland]

There is professional software to do that.. I use to use ULEAD DVD Workshop. Just load the video into the program then remove the logo and save..

Does it remove the logo from every frame?

Cheers,
Brian

[pcostanza]

I hate when they do that to tv shows! They ruined Spooks so much enough people complained they at least made is smaller.
I think someone posted a decent program a while back at videohelp.com. Not much help I know but it might be worth a search of that site.

[mvallevand]

I did this with a few files using VirtualDub and I tried various filters, (all free) but I found the blurred area that remained even worse than the original logo.

Martin

[sgilani]

ffdshow has a logo remove filter also but I've never used it.. might be worth a try.

[martint123]

I've searched for and tried a couple, but never had much success.
Let us know how you get on, they infuriate me.

[erik]

I tried mencoder logo removal and was surprised by its quality.
Ins not perfect but certainly much better then having a logo.
Did not try on a transparent logo but on a solid very colorful logo.
Its not done by blurring but by using motion to shift real background to where the logo is.

[cameluk]

Call me a perfectionist or whatever but I find this sort of thing really distracting - when I'm following a tense scene and dialogue, I don't want to see this sort of thing. It's like the annoying fly buzzing around your head that you can't catch.

Don't turn over to ITV 2, 3 or 4 if you think the BBC Three 'DOG' is bad :eek: "ITV have improved their service to their viewers"

[reboot]

Virtualdub with Shaun Faulds' filter, "Region Remove" works great.
I use it a lot.