[geeks] overlaying text onto video

[Porkchop]

You can actually do that with mencoder.
Use an external subtitle file, "-subalign 1" aughtta move it to the 
center of the screen...
Might take you a little bit to get the options right, but after that 
the production is fast...and you have the added "up yours" feeling 
you get when you beat Microsoft down with a piece of free software.
-porkchop

>I need to overlay a copyright notice on some video footage of a yet-to-be-
>released film.  I can get the film into any format desired (right now its
>MPEG-1 ripped from VCD, ripped from VHS), but I can do raw AVI, MPEG-2,
>Quicktime, etc).
>
>Output needs to look somewhat like this (copyright notice in middle 
>of screen):
>
>http://www.mrbill.net/movie/copyright-middle.jpg
>
>Any suggestions?  There's the "logo" filter in VirtualDub (Windows), but
>I've tried for 2 hours and can't get it working properly.  ULead Video
>Studio (30-day demo, Windows) has the ability to do a text crawl - but
>its downloading at 20K/sec and will take another hour to finish.
>
>Discreet Cleaner 6 will do it, but the demo is limited to 15 seconds and
>adds additional watermarks.  I can't afford the full non-demo version;
>this needs to be done with freely-available software.
>
>I've got a WinXP-SP2 machine and an iMac G5 1.8Ghz available.  Ideas?
>
>Bill
>
>--
>bill bradford
>austin texas
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