Cropping

[ice_2003]

say if i capped a clip at 352x288, then i cropped the bottom of the video to remove noise/border, and then encode at 352x288.

is quality in the oringal image lost due to the picture being "stretched" due to the cropping ?

would it be better to clip the border, or leave it how it is ?

ice_2003

[Ejoc]

Yes.

If its just a few pixels you're cropping, either would probably be fine. Id suggest encoding a 30second clip both ways, stretching and adding a border, and burn it on a CDRW and compare. I doubt youd really notice any difference. Plus due to TV overscan, theres a chance you wouldnt even see the bad pixels to begin with, So Id throw that on the CDRW too.

[FOO]

The quality will suffer due to the re-interpolation that has
to be done to stretch it. It is howver not necesary.

You can just simply paint the bottom black a few lines. 2 ways in Vdub:

1. Fill - paints black on a selected rectangle
2. Crop followed by add-borders. (this is in resize filter)