cropping problem - virtualdubmod - resulting file crashes apps

[robroth]

I used the Vdub null transform filter to crop a DV avi file i had captured from my VCR (AG-1980) using my DV camcorder as an A/D converter.

Most of the video looked great, but along the left side and across the bottom were some noise through the entire capture so I wanted to crop them. I ended up cropping about 8 pixels off the left and about 16 off the bottom.

I then output it converting to DiVX MP4 Fast motion.

The problem now is when I load the resulting AVI in Microsoft Media Player, it crashes. I then tried to load it using Nero's 'make a video DVD' tool and once I added that file, that crashed.

Obviously I need to do something else but I'm not sure what. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[kschang]

You may have ignored one of the limits of "resolution limits" of that codec you are using. Usually the X and Y have to be multiples of 4 or 8 or something like that.

[mikiem]

Might get away not cropping at all as that might be hidden by TV's overscan if that's where you'll play it.

Might go with less compressed intermediary, using something like HUFFYUV or mjpeg instead of mp4 to maintain higher quality.

If you want mpg2 for DVD, might frameserve out of V/Dub or use Avisynth, using either going to encoder.

Could get away using V/dub resize to crop and add letterbox so frame size stays same.

[robroth]

Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up just going back to Premiere to do it because I realized I missed a fade and had to redo that anyway.