Removing Black Borders and change resolution

[JamieLee2k]

So I have 50(ish) videos all 5 minutes long and they are all have the wrong resolution and black border, which I need to change.

What is the best and quickest program to use?
I have tried sony vegas to re-author but the size went from 25mb to 4.45gb

After I have sorted out all the videos I need to be able to burn them onto a DVD

[aedipuss]

maybe give vidcoder a try. but not if you want dvd video, only if you are making data discs. dvd video is mpeg-2, and vegas would be a better choice.

[usually_quiet]

Are you trying to put all 50 videos on one DVD intended to be played in a regular DVD player? Fifty 5-minute videos is 4 hours and 20 minutes worth. 4.65 GB for 4 hours and 20 minutes is not excessive, in fact most people only put a couple of hours worth of video on a DVD to have decent video quality at full DVD video resolution (720x576 for PAL), or 4 hours at half resolution (352 x 576 for PAL). If the video is widescreen once the frame is removed, you must use 720x576 for PAL.

[JamieLee2k]

Thanks for the reply's

I want to change them all to 720x480 and since they are all cartoons I am not overly concerned about quality.

There are black borders which are really annoying me so I need to remove them all first then change the resolution.

I can't seem to work out how to remove the borders in vidcoder and sony vegas seems to output one file to 4.45gb which is really strange.

[mike20021969]

I can't seem to work out how to remove the borders in vidcoder.

After importing file into VidCoder, click Settings (hammer/spanner icon).
Under Picture tab, click Cropping>Automatic. The borders will be removed.

If you need to fine-tune the cropping, click Cropping>Custom, then the Preview button.
Move the preview screen aside a little so you can access Top, Left, Right and Bottom buttons. Use the up/down arrows as necessary to fine-tune the cropping. whilst keeping an eye on the real-time preview.