Cropping via TMPGEnc Plus ?

[christopheramos]

Hello,

I'm frameserving from Vdub (.avi input) into TMPGEnc Plus to clean up the video and output it to MPEG-2 for DVD compilation.

The source video is PAL 720x576 @ 25fps. In TMPGEnc Plus, I set the output file to 720x480 @ 29.97 FPS (NTSC).

The output file, though, still has those black border pads, as PAL does. I wanted to see if I could crop out just those black pads.

But I didn't see that TMPGEnc Plus had that option. In the alternative, I wonder if there is a Vdub filter that will do it?

Any ideas?

Thanks!!!!

[guns1inger]

Add the Null Transform filter in vdub and you can then use the crop function

[christopheramos]

Okay, thanks. I am not familar with the Null Trasform filter. Is it a third party filter, or one that's standard in VDub's filter list? I am guessing that it won't be set internally, that I'll have to configure the Null Transform filter after adding it to my filter chain.

Thanks!

[FulciLives]

Sounds like a very poor way to do PAL to NTSC.

What is your source? In short is it interlaced or progressive and is it an AVI (what codec if it is) or is it a MPEG-2 file (a DVD rip?) or what???

In the meantime take a look at the following guide:

LINK ---> How to convert a PAL DVD to a NTSC DVD using TMPGEnc Plus 2.5x

Even if your source is not a DVD the bulk of that guide still applies.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[christopheramos]

Hello FulciLives,

The source is non-interlaced, .avi downloaded TV show. It's in Divix 5 (or maybe 6, not sure) format. It's not MPEG-2 ripped from DVD or anything.

Thanks, I will check out that guide you suggested.

[FulciLives]

Hello FulciLives,

The source is non-interlaced, .avi downloaded TV show. It's in Divix 5 (or maybe 6, not sure) format. It's not MPEG-2 ripped from DVD or anything.

Thanks, I will check out that guide you suggested.

Well even easier then ... just open up the AVI in TMPGEnc Plus. The video is already progressive so you don't have to worry about de-interlacing.

For the resizing method just pick FULL SCREEN (KEEP ASPECT RATIO)

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[christopheramos]

Well even easier then ... just open up the AVI in TMPGEnc Plus. The video is already progressive so you don't have to worry about de-interlacing.

For the resizing method just pick FULL SCREEN (KEEP ASPECT RATIO)

Well, actually, I already do that. But I still get the boarder padding for some reason. That's why I thought I'd look into cropping.

I read the guide you suggested, but it didn't seem to address frameserving, as I am doing. Unless I missed something.

[FulciLives]

what is the resolution of the AVI ... in fact can you post a screen shot from the AVI here?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[christopheramos]

Sorry, I don't have any way of capturing a screen shot. I'm not sure what you mean by the resolution.

[kush]

Check Gspot ([edit] for the res info[/edit]) in the tools section - info would be there. And it's quite likely you do have a screenshot/screen capture function in your player..IIRC even the freeware MPC has it.

[FulciLives]

Best way to capture a frame from an AVI file is to load it into VirtualDubMod which has the capacity to copy a frame to the clipboard (so you can paste it into an image editing program) or you can use VirtualDubMod to save directly to an image file (although if you do it that way the file might be too large to post here).

Also VirtualDubMod has an information option that tells you details about the AVI such as the resolution. Although GSpot will give you the most, best, information.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman