Cropping the upper and lower part of a tv picture

[marti60]

When recording music videos (which are broadcasted in 4/3 letterbox) they often use the upper black stroke for TV-logos and ads for ringtones etc..
What i'm looking for is some tool to black out this part of the picture to obtain a "cleaner" 4/3 letterbox music video.
I saw this done on some videos i downoaded.

[manono]

Hi-

Handy with AviSynth?

http://www.avisynth.org/Letterbox
http://www.avisynth.org/Crop
http://www.avisynth.org/AddBorders

[Barnabas]

You can use something like delogo, logoaway, or region remove, or simply mask the area of the logo. Masking the area is better than cropping, since you don't resize anything.

[marti60]

Thanks for infos, but i think those scripts are a bit complicated for me..

And yes, those logos are popping and moving

But while browsing from yur links i found a really easy solution.
The "add border" function in "DVDcomposer" is really the thing i need..
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t270977.html
I think i should try that one..

[manono]

Masking the area is better than cropping, since you don't resize anything.

Huh? Neither does Crop followed by AddBorders resize anything. The Letterbox command does mask the area in question (but both top and bottom black areas). And both Delogo and LogoAway are slow, inferior, and completely unnecessary if the junk he wants to get rid of is entirely in the black, as he seems to say.

That DVD Composer Add Borders seems to... add black. It says nothing about first removing or covering up the stuff you want to replace. Maybe I read it wrong, though. Still sounds to me like a silly way to do a simple job. And I'll bet it's very slow. So, tell me what's so difficult about:

AVISource("C:\Path\To\MusicVideo.avi",False) #False disables the audio for handling separately
Crop(,0,60,0,0) #or however many lines of pixels have to be removed
AddBorders(0,60,0,0) #replace with fresh black