I decided to post this in a new thread, but it came out of the 16mm transfer discussion.
With a transfer of 16mm [SOF] to video, even frame-by-frame, there may be individual frames you want to "Cut and Replace." In my current case the need comes from transfer of a film that was "professionally" cement spliced so along the bottom edge of the frame before the new film segment there is the line from the overlap of film base that had the emulsion scraped off.
What I would like to do is do a frame copy of the frame preceeding the edit-join frame and overwrite the less desirable frame. I don't want to just cut the frame as I have a very tightly synced audio track for this montage of clips.
If there is an easy way to do this with Vegas it is alluding me as trying to do an overlay paste of a single frame seems to add a frame and it is doing things to the already associated audio track. That could be because they are grouped, but I believe I removed the video from the group before my tests.
Reading about some of the clever Open Source tools, I wonder if there is an editor or tweak tool more tuned to the relatively simple changes I want to make to some frames. Either something automatic that could detect a scene change and automatically duplicate the frame one before and edit, or just a visual editor that would allow individual frame copy/paste. Maybe there is even a name for my common problem and a specific solution?
Perhaps there is a list somewhere of the various tools like AVIsynth? I have used VirtualDub years ago. Much of the interesting insights and recommendations about this stuff came from John M.
Wayne
With a transfer of 16mm [SOF] to video, even frame-by-frame, there may be individual frames you want to "Cut and Replace." In my current case the need comes from transfer of a film that was "professionally" cement spliced so along the bottom edge of the frame before the new film segment there is the line from the overlap of film base that had the emulsion scraped off.
What I would like to do is do a frame copy of the frame preceeding the edit-join frame and overwrite the less desirable frame. I don't want to just cut the frame as I have a very tightly synced audio track for this montage of clips.
If there is an easy way to do this with Vegas it is alluding me as trying to do an overlay paste of a single frame seems to add a frame and it is doing things to the already associated audio track. That could be because they are grouped, but I believe I removed the video from the group before my tests.
Reading about some of the clever Open Source tools, I wonder if there is an editor or tweak tool more tuned to the relatively simple changes I want to make to some frames. Either something automatic that could detect a scene change and automatically duplicate the frame one before and edit, or just a visual editor that would allow individual frame copy/paste. Maybe there is even a name for my common problem and a specific solution?
Perhaps there is a list somewhere of the various tools like AVIsynth? I have used VirtualDub years ago. Much of the interesting insights and recommendations about this stuff came from John M.
Wayne