Cropping to 16:9 from 4:3 tool, like Pan Scan?

[huntingtheasphyx]

This has been mentioned in a previous post but there has been no solution.
I have 2 cameras footage of a gig. One is widescreen, the other is fullscreen.. so to edit them together the fullscreen needs to be cropped down.
Now I know this should be easy, use Avisynth and Virtualdub.

Problem is, the full screen cameraman didnt keep it steady (either too high in the frame or too low), so a constant crop would result in some beheadings of musicians.

What I want to do is crop at different positions of the image at different parts of the footage. Doing this with avisynth would mean chopping the video up into about 50 parts and working each crop out seperately...very time consuming.

Has anyone heard of a tool that could be used in the same way pan and scan works, but instead of horizontal movements, it would be vertical.

Then the resulting file would be in widescreen and only the useful parts showing.

[guns1inger]

You best way would be to use something that can create motion paths. You specifiy the track you want the crop to follow by marking it out either frame by frame, or across groups of frames. Vegas can do this, as can most compositors (e.g. Digital Fusion, After effects etc)

[huntingtheasphyx]

Thanks for your help