Croping Video for Web

[illini19]

Have some golf tips that were put on VHS. Had to do the old Passthrough through Sony Cam to get into Premiere to Edit.

I need to convert for web (320x240 wmv) but as you can see from the image, when I bring in from VHS, it adds lines on left and bottom that I would like to crop out before converting for web.



Original Capture Source is 720x480 (avi).

Any ideas/tips on best way to crop out.

Thanks

[lordsmurf]

Crop it in the encoder when converting to WEB format.

[illini19]

Thanks Smurf...I have 18 Videos to do and they all have the same issue. For starters, I was planning on using .wmv format.

I used Windows Media Encoder 9 Series to encode the avi. Although I have the other usual suspects of encoders I suppose I could try.

Any recommendations?

Also, do you know why it adds those lines to the AVI? I'm guessing becasue it captures at 720x480 from the analog VHS tapes, but just a guess.

[MrMungus]

Thanks Smurf...I have 18 Videos to do and they all have the same issue. For starters, I was planning on using .wmv format.

I used Windows Media Encoder 9 Series to encode the avi. Although I have the other usual suspects of encoders I suppose I could try.

Any recommendations?

Also, do you know why it adds those lines to the AVI? I'm guessing becasue it captures at 720x480 from the analog VHS tapes, but just a guess.

It's called "overscan". What you see on your TV when you watch that video is not actually 100% of the video data on the tape. There's a thing called the "TV safe area" which is what you see on TV (without those "lines" you're talking about). It's normal.

If you want to get rid of that when encoding, just use Windows Media's crop/resize feature and/or crop/resize in VirtualDub (if you want to save your file as an AVI you can re-encode without having to do crop/resize).

Hope this helps.