blue line on the left side

[themaster1]

I have acquired a nice video on dvd but there is this blue line (more like an "area" than a line actually, anyway..) on the the left side of the frame and i wonder if there is a good filter for that.

Here is a pic for you to view

I remember i used a filter months ago but that was with a red line (right side of the frame) especially dedicated to get rid off of a common secam vhs artifact.

The video i have to work on is in ntsc format this time

Thanks for your inputs in advance

[lordsmurf]

Overscan.

[guns1inger]

Crop it, add a border and encode. No-one will see it, as the big blue guy pointed out, it's in the overscan area. If you crop and add borders you won't have to waste bitrate encoding it either.

[themaster1]

yeah right ..cropping i know, but i thought i could use a filter..

Well maybe it's time for me to experiment the possibilities of photoshop in great depth.

[guns1inger]

What do you need photoshop for ?

No-one will see this on 98% of TVs anyway, so what's to fix ?

[themaster1]

what's to fix lol
IT'S ABOUT TO FIX THE BLUE CHROMA ANOMALY

I don't care if "normal people" with the 90's tv set can't see it because of the overscan.
We will soon all have hdtv so i'm looking for the future not the past.

Anyway it's true that i'm picky.

[guns1inger]

a) Most HD TVs have overscan. It's a myth that they don't.

b) There is nothing of importance in those few pixels because programs are shot with overscan in mind. Even major motion pictures take this into account to some degree. You lose nothing by cropping and replacing it with a black border.

c) If you feel you must tilt at this windmill, then I would look at avisynth. Load two instances of the clip. Crop one so the end is missing, crop the other so the end is all that remains. Experiment with some chroma-shift filters and colour balance filters until you get the affected area clean enough for you to be happy with, then use StackHorizontal to put the two clips back together again and feed it to your encoder. This way the filtering only affects the problem area, and not the rest of the clip.

[lordsmurf]

You'll make the video worse trying to "fix" it.