how to crop a mpeg video to get it cleaned from the advertisement

[sumeshkri]

i have recorded some videos from television in the format mpeg2full D1 with 128 kbps dolby digital sound. in the video there is news strip moving underneath. i want to clean the video by removing the newsstrip by croping the bottom of the video. actually i don't know any other method to do this. kindly suggest the way to do this.

[lowellriggsiam]

A timeline editor such as Sony Movie Studio should work just fine.

[hech54]

I would mask out the news strip in VDub with the Border Control plugin.

[manono]

If you crop it you'll also have to resize it. Masking it allows you to keep the original resolution without resizing. I use AviSynth's Letterbox filter for such things:

Letterbox(0,20)

covers the bottom 20 rows of pixels with black:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Letterbox

[HoosierGuy]

I was wondering about this also. Is there any way to actually remove the graphics on a video? For instance, I have a clip of an old Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. When they start their story there is a graphic that says "Brazil Jungle" or something in white lettering in the center of the screen. Is there anyway to remove this?

[robjv1]

Just something to keep in mind -- since you've captured MPEG2, you're going to end up re-encoding your footage if you crop/mask it, resulting in a slightly softer picture. Use a good encoder.