Cropping and resizing with TMPGEnc

[Phoebos]

I am trying to cut some unwanted material from the right side of captured avi scenes before encoding it to mpeg2, using TMPGEnc. I dont want to cut this right part for total footage but crop some lines from the right of only a part of it (the part which contains the unwanted intruder in the frames) and then to leave the size 352X576 again. This is obviously in order to make the unwanted object disappear after encoding (aprox the 20% of the total area of these frames) and leave the rest 80% of the area of these frames undisturbed. The result should be a full screen again.

The problem is that using "crop" filter of TMPGEnc you do not have the choice of cropping part of the avi (by selecting parts to be filtered like in the "cut" filter case) resulting the whole avi to get cropped. Am I missing something or TMPGEnc do not have the ability of cropping selected only parts?

Thank you in advance

[yoda313]

Hello,

Have you tried virtualdub???? I'm not sure if it crops but it has a TON of features. You could manipulate it and encode it to the same avi specs as the original save the changes. Then load the cropped avi into tmpgenc for mpeg2 encoding.

Just hunt around virtualdubs settings and I'm sure you'll find something thats probably more flexible than tmpgenc in that regard

Kevin

[celtic_druid]

I would suggest frameserving with AVISynth. Should also result in quicker encoding as it tends to resize, etc. quicker than TMPGEnc.

[Phoebos]

My real problem is if applying of any filter can be done in a selected area only and not over the whole avi file. Or should a break the avi in several avis , aply to each one what I want and then merge, which is too too much trouble...

[celtic_druid]

Well you can just do something like:
video = avisource("whatever.avi")
a = trim(video,0,5000).fluxsmooth()
b = trim(video,5001,0)
return a+b

[Phoebos]

excuse me but what is this? some kind of script?
and how this can be used? It s a little advanced trick for me (only mouse user )

[celtic_druid]

With AVISynth as I suggested above. In the example fluxsmooth (a filter) is applied only to the first 5001 frames.