A friend has asked me to clean up his wedding DVD, if I can.
Here is a screenshot:
Four questions:
(I added the selection area, so that you can see what I mean)
1) Can I clip the footage to the selected area, proportionately (or to a similar area, so as to maintain the ratio)?
2) Audio must have been recorded on a camcorder microphone, so can voices be brought up (to be more clear / distinct) and the background faded slightly?
3) Colour is a bit washed out, so can that be sorted?
4) As a last priority, meaning that I would prefer to do the other things before this, can the footage be de-interlaced?
I do not mind using three different tools for the answer to each of those questions, but I would like to use the simplest solutions I can.
If the file can be loaded into VirtualDub, then it's filters can be used to 'crop' the offending area, 'resize' back to the original resolution and reset 'brightness/contrast' - then the result 'recompressed' to AVI.
The audio can be saved from VirtualDub as a wav file and the likes of Audacity used to filter out some noise - but that would be a bonus.
The adjusted wav file can be reloaded into VirtualDub and saved with the video.
There are lots of guides for VirtualDub and Google will turn just about anything you need.
Alternately, AVIDemux has filters and can handle MPEG.
Use VOB2MPG on the VOB files, load into AVIDemux then run the output from AVIDemux through DVD Flick - it will author the DVD without (AFAIK) re-encoding.
No matter, at some point there has to be re-encoding, but it can be kept to a minimum.
