Any Program to "blank out" or "black out" a portion of

[mbextreme]

Is there a program that would allow one to "black out" or "blank out" say the lower 1/8 of the video? Be it in AVI or MPG file.

For example, say I want to "black out" the lower portion of a video clip of the stock news where the running texts are near the bottom.

Thanks for any help to suggest a program or routine to do this.

[Alex_ander]

AviSynth:

Letterbox(0,64)

this turns to black the lower 64 pixels

[Baldrick]

virtualdubmod / virtualdubmpeg2, video->filters->null transform, cropping, resize....probably easier with avisynth but I don't use it.

[RWANDREWS]

If your're using TMPGEnc to encode, just use the crop feature to take off however much you need. Easily done.

[mbextreme]

Thank you for the suggestions.

Since I am already using TMPGEnc DVD Author 2.0 to author, maybe I should stay with the same brand for consistency.

Which TMPGEnc product that can do this cropping? Is it in Xpress when using it to encode?

[mbextreme]

Since I am asking some advice here, one more question:

Is there a program that would allow me to add a faint "watermark" of my choice of graphic or words to the whole video clip?

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

Not without re-encoding. If that is the case, you could use virtualdub to add the watermark, and frameserve to tmpgenc to encode it.