How to crop to get logo out??

[guns1inger]

DVD video only has one resolution - 720 x 480 (or 576 in PAL land) - if you want 16:9. How the image is displayed comes down to pixel aspect ratios etc. Remember that pixels aren't square on TV. So taking a letterbox video and present it 4:3 simply requires adding borders to flesh it to 480 lines high. For converting letterbox to 16:9, it means cropping or adding borders to get to 360 lines high, then resizing to 480.

In your script you crop slightly more fro the bottom to clear the logo. The 2 line border restores the 360 lines, and re-centres the image so that the resize will be correct. Your new script for the credits should do the same.

I would probably make one other change, and this is consider using Lancsoz4Resize instead, but that is a personal choice.

[rbatty11]

Just a thanks to everyone who helped, esp. manono, gunslinger, ls.. I did manage to get it done but after authoring, the movie and credits came out 'jumbled'.. movie played thru, then played a few seconds of the credits, then went back to beginning of movie.. very strange. Anyway, I know it's because I merged the two mpg's after re-encoding that is causing the problem..

Will start reading thru trim/clip in Avisynth instead of 2 separate projects, and try the project again from scratch... oh well..

[manono]

Hi-

Anyway, I know it's because I merged the two mpg's after re-encoding that is causing the problem..

That shouldn't be the problem. I do credits separately and merge them all the time.
Sometimes you'll find the main video is telecined, and I IVTC, and the credits are interlaced 29.97, so to make sure they don't play jerky, I encode them separately and merge them during authoring. Does the credits mpg play OK by itself? And what did you use to merge and author them?

[rbatty11]

Yes, both separate mpg files (movie and credits) play fine individually. I tried using both TMPGEnc and mpegvcr to merge the 2 mpg's and what's strange is, they both come out to the same size as the movie alone (~3.9g). BUT.. a very short portion of the credits does play before cutting off.. so for some reason, it only merges a tiny portion of the credits... ??

i tried maestro and the result was what i described above.. then i tried dvdws2 and it couldn't even finish the process (kept giving me errors).

I didn't think to check if the credits were interlaced.. will do tonight. Thanks..

[manono]

You merged the actual videos. I was suggesting adding them one after the other when authoring. I do it a lot with Muxman, and everything gets played.

[rbatty11]

hmm.. never used muxman.. Do you mean actually authoring 2 separate titles and 'linking' them to play one after the other (playlist??).. If so, it would be new to me, but will try that..................

[manono]

You'll see. You Browse to the main video, and then hit the Add button to add in the credits sequence. They'll wind up in the same title.