**HELP** Cropping a DVD Video.

[kal1982]

Hi, i have got a movie in form of dvd video files inside a dvd folder. I would like to crop around the movie so certain things around it are not showing when i play the movie in my dvd player after burning to a dvd-r.

Is there any software out there that you are aware of that will allow me to do that to dvd video files in a simple way? I have done it with Nero Recode, but the recode output is a single Nero Digital MPEG-4 movie file and not the usual dvd video files which i want to burn to a dvd-r. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[kadzbiz]

When you say crop around the movie, I'm assuming you mean cutting the edges off the video image. I use either Womble Video Wizard or TMPEGEnc Express 3 to do this and other editing options. Once the original movie (usually in mpeg format) is cropped, the movie is encoded again into an mpeg format. To get this mpeg format to play on a DVD, you need to use an authoring program (I use DVD Author Pro, but Womble Video Wizard and others can do it too) which compiles the movie into an audio_TS folder and a video_TS folder that you then burn with Nero or whatever to your DVD disc. Good luck.

[rumplestiltskin]

MPEG Streamclip will permit you to crop but this probably will require recoding the video.

[theewizard]

assuming the dvd folder is complete and the movie is in real movie aspect ratio, this means it is displayed 1.82??? or 2.??? and does not fill the TV screen

the question now becomes what is it you want to crop

the black bars at top and bottom ?

the encoding authoring program will either put them back, to keep everything the correct perspective

or it will stretch everything vertivcally to fill the screen and the perspective will be terrible

you cannot fill the screen verticaly unless you crop the correct amount off each side/end ( left-right ) so that the resized video fills the screen and maintains perspective ( aspect ratio ) but you loose part of the movie

[kal1982]

Ok, i have a dvd movie on my hard drive, and i have unofficial large black borders on top and bottom and tiny black borders on the left and right. (I call them unofficial as they are merged into the video, and is not something the player creates itself).

I just wish to crop them out by selecting nothing but the video image so when i play the movie it will use the black borders that the dvd player will create automatically. I want to input dvd files, and get output dvd files. (I don't want to convert the dvd files to avi, then crop the video then re-convert to dvd).

I have attached 3 pictures to help you understand what i want. Picture 1 shows the untouched video before cropping which includes them borders. Picture 2 shows preview of video of cropped borders. Picture 3 shows what the cropped video looks like when playing it with nero showtime player. You can notice that it adds it's own border to the video, and that theres a tiny bit of the original border aswell due to miscalculation of cropping, but there is a clear difference between both borders.

video%20pics.rar

[guns1inger]

What you have is a widescreen movie encoded as 4:3 letterboxed. This is legitimate, although mot ideal. However, to do what you want won't make the image any better in most cases.

If the DVD is PAL, you need to crop 72 lines from the top, and 72 from the bottom. You then have to resize the video back to 576 lines, and re-encode to mpeg-2 as 16:9. After you then re-author to DVD as 16:9, the DVD will put back the borders you cropped off.

If the source DVD is NTSC, the numbers Are 60 from the top, 60 from the bottom, then resize to 480 lines.

I would not worry about the edge borders unless you really want to complicate things. Chances are on a TV you won't see them anyway.