Cropping WMV

[silmarallion]

Hi guys,

Can anyone recomend a program for cropping avi/wmv/asf. More importantly WMV.

Thanks,
sil

[Baldrick]

What do you mean by crop? Like cutting away a part of the video frame like remove black borders? Or just cut, edit the movie?

[silmarallion]

Hi sorry, I thought cropping was a standard term for the video size/resolution ><
Basically I have received footage where the guy has filmed in 4:3 mode, but it seems the receiver recoreds in widescreen or so.
So it has added in black borders to fill in the space on the left and right. I just want to crop those.

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

Tried Windows Movie Maker? Or maybe it's not possible then you can use windows media encoder, the crop setting is under the video size tab. And reconvert to a new wmv.

[silmarallion]

Hey, I found the setting in WM Encoder. But it's uselss unless I know exactly how much to cut off either side as it does'nt give a graphical grid, you just add in the the values to left and right.
The video is a resolution of 1025x576. Do you know how I can go about measuring how much to crop off either side?

Thanks.

[Cornucopia]

You could export a frame and use a photo editor that crops graphically end remember the values...

Just a guess, but 4:3 PAL is 720x576 (with usual non-square PAR), whose equivalent resolution is 768x576 (with square par). Widescreen square version of this is 1024x576 (which is 1 pixel off your setting.
I would suggest then that you crop 128 off of each side (129 on 1 side to get rid of that extra pixel).

Scott

[silmarallion]

Thanks a lot for both suggestions Cornucopia. Was a really big help!