AutoGK cutting off top of video

[jmkeuning]

I have a video that I recorded using my capture card. AutoGK is cutting off the top of the video, not the bottom.

I record lots of stuff with the card and convert it with AutoGK, I have not chenged any settings. The cutting-off is not happening with other similiarly recorded and converted videos.

[Soopafresh]

Something is up with the Autocrop function. Search on Autocrop AutoGK

[jmkeuning]

Well, I searched on that but it does not seem that there is a simple way to control what Autocrop does and how to control it...

[jmkeuning]

THANKS SOOPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfreaking real... Auto Freakin Crop... who woulda known?

I fixed the prob with the Ctrl+F9 trick (who has been keeping that secret?)

[manono]

who has been keeping that secret?

If you had bothered to read the included tutorial, it's right there:

- Sometimes auto crop used with default parameters by AutoGK cannot totally remove black bars or removes too much of the movie material. In this case "Tune auto crop parameters" is very handy. Threshold defines how sensitive auto crop will be: the higher the value the more cropping will be done. To completely disable the auto crop, you can set threshold to 0.

http://www.autogk.me.uk/modules.php?name=TutorialEN#6

[jmkeuning]

If you had bothered to read the included tutorial...

What an A-hole! No Sh!^ Sherlock, you don't need to quote something that I already read. Are you a jerk in your real so-called life? Or only in your cyber life?

Seriously, why do you need to take the time to post a response to a problem that Soopa already helped me with?

Is this what you think the point of this forum is? To rub details into people who have not remembered every word of every guide, manual, and tip sheet that they have already read?

No, the point of these forums is so that people who have problems can come and ask questions and get answers.

Way to keep it real you freakin' chump.

[manono]

Hello to you, too.

And either you hadn't read it, didn't understand it, or completely forgot about it, but it's pretty clear about your problem. So, again:

who woulda known?...
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who has been keeping that secret?

They don't say RTFM for nothing, you know. It's not as if there's a conspiracy to keep you from learning about it. And since I wrote about 80% of that tutorial (although not much in the Hidden Options section), I'm sure you'll forgive me for being impatient with someone that asks questions about things already well covered in the manual.

Sure you will.

It's even covered in the Official AutoGK FAQ:

4.6 Can I manually crop video?
- Sort of. Starting with version 1.86 its possible via ".autocrop" hidden option (CTRL-F9). Just set threshold to 0 and then use "Force cropping of" option.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=72679

[jmkeuning]

OMG - you and your manual need to lighten up. I appreciate the time you took to put the info together, but the solution to your frustration and impatience with people who do not remember every jot an tiddle that you included is not to simply flame them.

I mean, what you should do, if you really live by your RTFM principle, is to repsond to everyone with a question by telling them to RTFM. Apparently, you do not tell everyone to simple RTFM... but you picked out me for special attention - even though my question was asked, answered, and solved before you came around.

Look, my response, which you quote above, was an expression of my own surprise that I did not know about Ctrl+F9... I think that my ignorance of the hidden features is a testament to the reliability of AutoGK. When AutoGK did not perform like I expected it to I figured I would come here and ask a question. In response to my question I get folks like you telling me to RTFM.

Whatever!

[jmkeuning]

It's even covered in the Official AutoGK FAQ:

4.6 Can I manually crop video?
- Sort of. Starting with version 1.86 its possible via ".autocrop" hidden option (CTRL-F9). Just set threshold to 0 and then use "Force cropping of" option.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=72679

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Ahhhh - you edited your post!

Look, I did not know that my problem was caused by CROPPING. Do you understand this? I had no idea what the problem was. I did not know if it was an issue with my original MPEG, with AutoGK, or my AVI player.

Geez man. What is your problem? I looked at the output AVI from AutoGK and did not understand. If you think that everyone can understand completely what is going on with all these apps simply by following your RTFM mantra, then why do the discussion forums exist?

[manono]

Ahhhh - you edited your post!

Yes, and before you posted. I didn't know you were about to post. After posting my reply, I went looking to see if the FAQ mentioned the problem, and it did. So I edited the post. Nothing wrong with that.

Look, I did not know that my problem was caused by CROPPING.

But what's the name of this thread? AutoGK cutting off top of video Sounds to me like you believed it to be an AutoGK cropping issue from the beginning.

If you think that everyone can understand completely what is going on with all these apps simply by following your RTFM mantra, then why do the discussion forums exist?

One mention hardly makes a mantra. I wouldn't have mentioned it at all had you not implied twice that the solution was hard to find. The point I was trying to make, in case it escaped you, was that a simple look around will often turn up the answer more quickly than posting on a board and waiting for the answer to be handed to you. Feel free to have the last word.

[jmkeuning]

People come to these forums and ask questions that you believe have simple answers. I think we have all answered questions that we think are simple. Look, the fact is, everything that I know about capturing and conversion I learned on this forum. But when someone asks a question that I know the answer to I do not tell them to do some searching and come up with the solution on their own. I think you know this and I do not understand what your problem is. But I do know that the problem is your's, not mine.

The point I was trying to make, in case it escaped you, was that a simple look around will often turn up the answer more quickly than posting on a board and waiting for the answer to be handed to you. Feel free to have the last word.

This is not me trying to get the last word. This is me trying to correct you.

How is finding an FAQ on doom9 SIMPLE? It's not simple. A search from the main page does not yield the FAQ. Please tell me how to search this site and find that FAQ. And even then, how the HELL and I supposed to know that a cut-off, chopped-off, video is from auto-CROPPING?

That said, you say that the so-called simple look will "often turn up the answer more quickly..." 1) Soopa answered my question in 5 minutes; I'd say that was pretty quick. 2) I do not understand what the speed of my chosen problem-solving method has to do with any of this. I can understand if I was complaining that it takes a long time to get answers around here. If you are just looking out for my interests by suggesting that I RTFM because it is the fastest way to solve a problem I point you to back to number one.

My question may have been simple, and the solution may have been simple, but you certainly showed your stripes by insisting on weighing in on a problem that was solved long before you joined it.

[voodle]

There's a distinction I'd make between really dumb folks who waste people's time by asking questions without bothering to do any research, and innocent nubies who haven't been able to make sense of the copious documentation and come here to these forums for a convivial exchange of ideas. The latter is to be encouraged, IMHO, and jumping on such posts is just bad netiquette, IMHO. But pointing the finger at bad netiquette is also bad netiquette, so I'll shut up on that subject.

To revert to an earlier post of mine, there does seem to be a problem with AKG when it wants to write a .autocrop file into a read-only directory (eg, in my case to switch autocropping off altogether when transcoding a DVD). How does one get round that?

[FulciLives]

There's a distinction I'd make between really dumb folks who waste people's time by asking questions without bothering to do any research, and innocent nubies who haven't been able to make sense of the copious documentation and come here to these forums for a convivial exchange of ideas. The latter is to be encouraged, IMHO, and jumping on such posts is just bad netiquette, IMHO. But pointing the finger at bad netiquette is also bad netiquette, so I'll shut up on that subject.

To revert to an earlier post of mine, there does seem to be a problem with AKG when it wants to write a .autocrop file into a read-only directory (eg, in my case to switch autocropping off altogether when transcoding a DVD). How does one get round that?

Anytime in the past (haven't tried in a while) when I've attempted to disable auto-crop ... well ... autoGK would always just CRASH on me.

Never could figure out a work-around ... but like I said haven't tried it in a while now.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman