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jsingroove
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August 13, 2013
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How do I remove text overlay from a movie already completed?

  • August 13, 2013
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I have licensed the movie and need to remove the title page and edit some text throughout it. How do I do so whilst keeping the background intact? It was sent to me as a .mov file and I am using adobe premiere pro.

Thanks

Correct answer Shane_Ross

So you have a single MOV file that has text, like lower thirds or subtitles, basically "burned into" the file, right? 

Then you can't edit it...it's part of the movie. It's "flattened" to use a photoshop term...it's part of the movie. There's no way to change the text, or remove it. This is one of the reasons projects I work on deliver a texted and textless version...so if you need to change text, or add it somewhere else, or make it in a foreign language, you can.  Import the file, add your own text layer.

Nothing you can do short of blowing up and reformatting the image to get rid of the text. but then you are affecting video quality,and losing a good portion of your image.

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pranav32479012ojd7
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February 18, 2024

i want to remove all the word

 

Ann Bens
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Ann BensCommunity Expert
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February 18, 2024

Nearly impossible.

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lorenm84878416
Inspiring
March 27, 2025

Okay, so what about a doc with lockdown interview shots with lower thirds, which look fine in Standard Def 4:3 but would be cropped when enlarging to widescreen 16 X 9? 

Do I have tools in Premiere Pro which can tackle this, or should I load the clips into a Photoshop animation tineline and use the clone tools and content-aware fill?

 

Best as always,
Loren

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Hossien Rahimian Majd
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December 15, 2020

ok i found the best and easiest way to remove the text on premier well first get a 4 coppy of your video  layer on premier then go a head to firtst layer meant top layer use mask and creat a rectangular mask on it certainly around the text so on that layer then use color key and select the color of your text  so by now you will see only the selected part and you transparented the text now you need to do two more stepe then on the second layer wich is down the top layer make another mask but this time mas all the video but not the text area it must be certainly text area that is not selected then on the layer 3 change the posittion of layer 3 for a little bit so on text partyou see frames wich are so close to text frame no one can undrestan that there was a text on there

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jnotovitz
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February 23, 2021

Your solution looks like it should work, but I'm having trouble re-creating what you have described. Can you kindly explain in more detail? Many thanks!

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    August 14, 2013

    Welcome to the forum.

    One other possible option, though you have to weight it, against what you already have, would be to create a Title, that covers what exists, burned in. This could be the client's logo, or something else. When a few clients have licensed existing footage, with another logo, or bug, I have just created one for them, to overlay that. Depending on what you have, and what fits your sense of aesthetics, that might be doalbe, or not.

    As for that Title, if it is just part of the Video Stream, it can be Deleted easily.

    Good luck,

    Hunt

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    peterr6555614
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    October 17, 2019
    Hi,
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    peterr6555614
    Participant
    October 17, 2019

    You were saying that: if it is just part of the Video Stream, it can be Deleted easily. How are the steps to delete that text please, can you tell more or share a link to it!

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    Shane_RossCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    August 13, 2013

    So you have a single MOV file that has text, like lower thirds or subtitles, basically "burned into" the file, right? 

    Then you can't edit it...it's part of the movie. It's "flattened" to use a photoshop term...it's part of the movie. There's no way to change the text, or remove it. This is one of the reasons projects I work on deliver a texted and textless version...so if you need to change text, or add it somewhere else, or make it in a foreign language, you can.  Import the file, add your own text layer.

    Nothing you can do short of blowing up and reformatting the image to get rid of the text. but then you are affecting video quality,and losing a good portion of your image.

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