Making a mask to remove hardsubs

pcroland · 23rd October 2018, 16:28

Hi!

I have two video sources. The first source has good picture quality and hardcoded subs, the second source has low PQ but it does not contain hardsubs.

I want to remove the hardsubs from the video and replacing the texts with actual video.

This is my script so far:

Code:

a=FFMS2("X:\DL\hardsub.mkv")
b=FFMS2("X:\DL\nohardsub.mkv")
mask=Subtract(a,b).Levels(0, 0.16, 255, 0, 255, coring=true)
Overlay(a,b,0,0,mask)

I subtract the two image from each other and then tweaking the colors to make it kinda black and white only.

Here are some frames:
video with good PQ
video with bad PQ
difference between them
after tweaking it with levels
using the mask to Overlay the text

So my questions are:

How can I make the mask pure black and white? Is there any script that turns the image into 1 bit?
How can I expand the mask with for example 10-15 pixels? I tried to mess with mt_expand but no luck so far.

23rd October 2018, 16:28	#1 \| Link
pcroland Registered User Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Hungary Posts: 115	Making a mask to remove hardsubs Hi! I have two video sources. The first source has good picture quality and hardcoded subs, the second source has low PQ but it does not contain hardsubs. I want to remove the hardsubs from the video and replacing the texts with actual video. This is my script so far: Code: a=FFMS2("X:\DL\hardsub.mkv") b=FFMS2("X:\DL\nohardsub.mkv") mask=Subtract(a,b).Levels(0, 0.16, 255, 0, 255, coring=true) Overlay(a,b,0,0,mask) I subtract the two image from each other and then tweaking the colors to make it kinda black and white only. Here are some frames: video with good PQ video with bad PQ difference between them after tweaking it with levels using the mask to Overlay the text So my questions are: How can I make the mask pure black and white? Is there any script that turns the image into 1 bit? How can I expand the mask with for example 10-15 pixels? I tried to mess with mt_expand but no luck so far.