ffmpegX crop?

[spiff41398]

Newbie here, so please excuse my ignorance.

I ripped my LOTR: FOTR Special Extended Edition DVD using 0SEx 0.0101b, hoping to make a DivX movie with ffmpegX 0.0.6g. I checked the 'Encode 5 sec test clip' so I can enter the crop values and eliminate the black bars at the top and bottom of the movie. Problem is, once I enter the crop values and re-encode for 5 seconds, the black bars are gone but the video is stretched vertically and fills up the space where the black bars were. Is there a way to keep the aspect ratio while also removing the letterboxing?

Thanks a lot for any help.

[mlindber]

You need to make sure that your video resolution matches what you are cropping. It sounds like you are keeping your video resolution at 640x352 (which is a 16x9 aspect ratio), when you really need to have it at 640x272 (which is a 2:35:1 aspect ratio, which LOTR is).

[spiff41398]

mlindber,

The simplest of solutions never ceases to amaze me. Thanks a lot!