How to remove subtitles from Japanese LaserDiscs

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Does anyone know how to remove Japanese subtitles from Japanese LaserDiscs?

Thanks.

--Leonid

 

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Leonid Makarovsky <venom@cs.bu.edu> wrote:

>Does anyone know how to remove Japanese subtitles from Japanese LaserDiscs?

You can't. They're non-removable.

-- jayembee

 

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jayembee <jayembeenospam@snurcher.com> wrote...
> You can't. They're non-removable.

This is true for watching the actual LD.

Assuming that the subtitles are in the black areas of the letterboxed
picture, you can remove them if you transfer the movie to DVD. This
would be a laborious process of using Photoshop for NEARLY EVERY FRAME
to black-out the subtitles by setting RGB = 0,0,0. I would imagine
that this process would take a couple of years to complete depending
upon the length of the movie and how often subtitles appear on the
black areas! Not fun.

HTH,

-Junior

 

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People are so used to being able to do things like this in our digital
world, but LD is an analog format. I'm afraid you are out of luck.

Todd

 

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On 25 Apr 2004 06:56:48 -0700, watsona@kenyon.edu (unclejr) wrote:

>jayembee <jayembeenospam@snurcher.com> wrote...
>> You can't. They're non-removable.
>
>This is true for watching the actual LD.
>
>Assuming that the subtitles are in the black areas of the letterboxed
>picture, you can remove them if you transfer the movie to DVD. This
>would be a laborious process of using Photoshop for NEARLY EVERY FRAME

Er, well that's not true at all, you can frame serve the AVI through
AVIsynth using the "Lettebox" command to mask out the black areas.
Also VirtualDub has masking and cropping to cover unwanted areas.
This is a simple thing that is done all the itme, even to just masking
out the switching lines at the bottom of VHS tapes. This doesn't
apply in this case, but if applicable it's hardl ythe major task you
describe.

. Steve .
>to black-out the subtitles by setting RGB = 0,0,0. I would imagine
>that this process would take a couple of years to complete depending
>upon the length of the movie and how often subtitles appear on the
>black areas! Not fun.

>
>HTH,
>
>-Junior

 

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unclejr <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote:
: jayembee <jayembeenospam@snurcher.com> wrote...
:> You can't. They're non-removable.

: This is true for watching the actual LD.

: Assuming that the subtitles are in the black areas of the letterboxed
: picture, you can remove them if you transfer the movie to DVD. This

No, it's 4:3 screen and they are white background.

Ok, I guess no means no.

But one thing is that there're some Japanese DVDs that Japanese folx
transferred from Japanese LaserDiscs. On these DVDs there're Japanese
subtitles that can be turned off. So I guess these subtitles weren't somehow
bundled to LDs. I don't know. One such title that comes to mind is:
Deep Puprle - California Jam 1974 by VAP Video.

--Leonid

 

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Leonid Makarovsky <venom@cs.bu.edu> wrote...
> No, it's 4:3 screen and they are white background.

Then you're out of luck.

> Ok, I guess no means no.

Yup.

> But one thing is that there're some Japanese DVDs that Japanese folx
> transferred from Japanese LaserDiscs. On these DVDs there're Japanese
> subtitles that can be turned off. So I guess these subtitles weren't somehow
> bundled to LDs. I don't know. One such title that comes to mind is:
> Deep Puprle - California Jam 1974 by VAP Video.

This sounds like LD+G close captioning, which can be turned on or off
if your JAPANESE LD player supports it.

HTH,

-Junior

 

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"unclejr" <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote in message
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> Assuming that the subtitles are in the black areas of the letterboxed
> picture, you can remove them if you transfer the movie to DVD. This
> would be a laborious process of using Photoshop for NEARLY EVERY FRAME
> to black-out the subtitles by setting RGB = 0,0,0. I would imagine
> that this process would take a couple of years to complete depending
> upon the length of the movie and how often subtitles appear on the
> black areas! Not fun.

My DLP projector has a blanking function I activate to cover up the
subtitles if they appear in the letterbox bar.

 

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Todd Spangler wrote:

> People are so used to being able to do things like this in our digital
> world, but LD is an analog format. I'm afraid you are out of luck.
>
> Todd
>


Unless...

You run it through something digital. Just playing it to the screen is
indeed an of luck type situation. (There is a way to do it there to, but
it's in my head- I don't think anybodies built one yet.)


otoh,
If you can edit on a PC or something you can remove the offending
titles. (Gee, hand removing each 'frame' via photoshop seems waaaaay to
hands on labor intensive.)


TBerk

 

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unclejr <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote:
: This sounds like LD+G close captioning, which can be turned on or off
: if your JAPANESE LD player supports it.

I guess not. My LD player is Pioneer Elite CLD 52. I actually will be
transferring these LDs to DVDRs myself using TV capture card and soundcard.
Thought I could get rid of those subtitles.

--Leonid

 

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"Leonid Makarovsky" <venom@cs.bu.edu> wrote in message
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> unclejr <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote:
> : This sounds like LD+G close captioning, which can be turned on or
off
> : if your JAPANESE LD player supports it.
>
> I guess not. My LD player is Pioneer Elite CLD 52. I actually will be
> transferring these LDs to DVDRs myself using TV capture card and
soundcard.
> Thought I could get rid of those subtitles.

LD+G works similarly to closed-captioning, except that the decoder would
be built into the player rather than the TV. If your LD player doesn't
have an LD+G decoder, you won't ever see the LD+G captions. Any
subtitles you see when playing a disc now are burned into the image
permanently, and are not LD+G related. The only way to not see them is
to cover them up.

 

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On 25 Apr 2004 14:50:58 GMT, Leonid Makarovsky <venom@cs.bu.edu>
wrote:

>No, it's 4:3 screen and they are white background.

There are a couple of filters for VirtualDub/AviSynth that can do a
decent job removing logos from video. Sometimes the results are pretty
astounding, especially for translucent bugs. However, for white hard
subs on a 4:3 background, the results of the removal would probably be
far more distracting than the original subs. I'd say it's not worth
the trouble to even try. And that's coming from someone who has spent
a while trying.

 

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Leonid Makarovsky <venom@cs.bu.edu> wrote in message news:<c6gj8i$kqi$2@news3.bu.edu>...

>
> But one thing is that there're some Japanese DVDs that Japanese folx
> transferred from Japanese LaserDiscs. On these DVDs there're Japanese
> subtitles that can be turned off. So I guess these subtitles weren't somehow
> bundled to LDs. I don't know. One such title that comes to mind is:
> Deep Puprle - California Jam 1974 by VAP Video.
>
> --Leonid

Intriguing. Because i would think that Deep Purple Cal74 (LD is
VPLR-70114) had no subtitles at all but must have come with a lyrics
insert, maybe someone made the lyrics into optional subtitles on a DVD
? I may be wrong as i don't own that disc. Any other title that comes
to your mind ?

 

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> Er, well that's not true at all, you can frame serve the AVI through
> AVIsynth using the "Lettebox" command to mask out the black areas.
> Also VirtualDub has masking and cropping to cover unwanted areas.
> This is a simple thing that is done all the itme, even to just masking
> out the switching lines at the bottom of VHS tapes. This doesn't
> apply in this case, but if applicable it's hardl ythe major task you
> describe.
>
> . Steve .

You could also use a mask in Premiere which would take absolutely no time at
all.

 

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Karyudo <karyudo_usenet@yahoo.com.remove.me> wrote:
: On 25 Apr 2004 14:50:58 GMT, Leonid Makarovsky <venom@cs.bu.edu>
: wrote:

:>No, it's 4:3 screen and they are white background.

: There are a couple of filters for VirtualDub/AviSynth that can do a
: decent job removing logos from video. Sometimes the results are pretty
: astounding, especially for translucent bugs. However, for white hard
: subs on a 4:3 background, the results of the removal would probably be
: far more distracting than the original subs. I'd say it's not worth
: the trouble to even try. And that's coming from someone who has spent
: a while trying.

I use VirtualDub to feed AVI to TMPGEnc. I don't use any filters though. What
filters would you recommed there? And those subtitles are on the image. If they
were on some black background, that wouldn't have bothered me too much.

--Leonid

 

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Nicolas Santini <nsa@dk.catv.ne.jp> wrote:
: Intriguing. Because i would think that Deep Purple Cal74 (LD is
: VPLR-70114) had no subtitles at all but must have come with a lyrics
: insert, maybe someone made the lyrics into optional subtitles on a DVD
: ? I may be wrong as i don't own that disc. Any other title that comes
: to your mind ?

Ahh... No there's no lyrics on Cal Jam. There're subtitles during the song
announcements which are removable. So if there's no subtitles on LD that
means that VAP video either transferred it from LD and then added subtitles OR
VAP video simply recorded it from the same source that was used for LD. The
quality of DVD is ok. It could be better if they boosted up bit rate from 6mbs
to 8mbs.

--Leonid

PS. I want to remove subtitles from 12 Wasted Years LD I got from you.

 

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Joshua Zyber wrote:

> "Leonid Makarovsky" <venom@cs.bu.edu> wrote in message
> news:c6hkov$jr1$1@news3.bu.edu...
>
>>unclejr <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote:
>>: This sounds like LD+G close captioning, which can be turned on or
>
> off
>
>>: if your JAPANESE LD player supports it.
>>
>>I guess not. My LD player is Pioneer Elite CLD 52. I actually will be
>>transferring these LDs to DVDRs myself using TV capture card and
>
> soundcard.
>
>>Thought I could get rid of those subtitles.
>
>
<snip>
> Any
> subtitles you see when playing a disc now are burned into the image
> permanently, and are not LD+G related. The only way to not see them is
> to cover them up.
>


Or,

you could get them into the computer and REPLACE them.

Look into editing software.


TBerk

 

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"T" <tberk@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> > Any
> > subtitles you see when playing a disc now are burned into the image
> > permanently, and are not LD+G related. The only way to not see them
is
> > to cover them up.
>
> Or,
>
> you could get them into the computer and REPLACE them.
>
> Look into editing software.

Replace them with what? If they're in the letterbox bar you'd replace
them with pure black, which amounts to the same thing as covering them
up. If they're in the movie picture, you're screwed. "Replacing" them
would entail sampling the pixels around them and individually painting
them out of every video field for the entire movie.

Good luck with that. Check back with us in 10 years when you've
finished.

 

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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:23:27 GMT, T <tberk@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Joshua Zyber wrote:
>
>> Any
>> subtitles you see when playing a disc now are burned into the image
>> permanently, and are not LD+G related. The only way to not see them is
>> to cover them up.
>
>Or,
>you could get them into the computer and REPLACE them.

With what? The original picture information is permanently obscured by
subs, as Josh says. "DeLogo" and a few other VirtualDub filters are
the best hope, but even they are likely to come up with
less-than-satisfactory results in this case. Even if you put new
(non-Japanese) subs over top, it's mostly gonna look like you put new
subs over top of either hard Japanese subs, or a weird blurry mess.

Computers, as much as I love 'em, aren't a panacea.

 

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"Joshua Zyber" <jzyber@SPAMMERS-DROP-DEAD.mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<oX5kc.7084$g31.920@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
> "T" <tberk@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:jj0kc.42344$Uu3.25544@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com...
> > > Any
> > > subtitles you see when playing a disc now are burned into the image
> > > permanently, and are not LD+G related. The only way to not see them
> is
> > > to cover them up.
> >
> > Or,
> >
> > you could get them into the computer and REPLACE them.
> >
> > Look into editing software.
>
> Replace them with what? If they're in the letterbox bar you'd replace
> them with pure black, which amounts to the same thing as covering them
> up. If they're in the movie picture, you're screwed. "Replacing" them
> would entail sampling the pixels around them and individually painting
> them out of every video field for the entire movie.
>
> Good luck with that. Check back with us in 10 years when you've
> finished.

I suppose it would be possible to have an algorithm detect the subs,
and replace them by some sort of interpolation of pixels around.
Results would not be perfect but it could run frame by frame,
requiring no attendance.

Remember in the old days before color cinema, prints would be painted
by hand...