Video cropping problem

[KillEmAll007]

Can anyone help me with cropping a video file? I've been using assorted free editors that support video cropping, but none of them seem to do what i want.

Before i go any further, i'm not talking about cropping the timeline, i'm talking about cropping the size of the frame. I've made a video (1.3GB mpg 1920x1080 - about 8min) with Cyberlink Power Director which automatically put a black border around my video. I've recently learned that they call it a letterhead and it's function is to play on standard NTSC TV's so the video isn't cut off. But this video isn't intended for a TV...I'm just trying to make a HD video for YouTube.

Now, i have tried various FREE editors that claim they will do this, but the video still renders the border everytime.....i don't get it.

Does anyone know of a program that can do this with ease.....and that absolutely works??? Here are some pics to show my problem......

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[lordsmurf]

I use Adobe Premiere.

[tluxon]

The editor I've used that seems to be easiest to crop with is TMPGenc 4.0 XPress.

[jagabo]

VirtualDub and AviDemux are free.

[edDV]

Most serious editors address this issue with selection of project format.

[netmask56]

taking a brief view of the user manual it appears that you can select either of 2 options as an output ie 4:3 0r 16:9. So any cropping of individual clips will be done within either a 4:3 or 16:9 frame. This limitation is fairly normal for an entry level editor. VirtualDub is your best choice IMO and it's free - check the instructions for VirtualDub as cropping can be done as a stream copy and won't involve recoding.
If you want a more friendly front end program than VirtualDub take a look at the Google service YouTube remixer http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/16/youtube-remixer-edit-videos-online-at-youtube/


EDIT: If you have Womble you can do it using the clip menu. Make your clip and then crop it (video -filter -cropping) - then "add" it to clips and then select "trim clip" which brings up a save box - so it won't be re-encoded just saved as you have cropped. It will name the clip whatever001.mpg

[jagabo]

VirtualDub is your best choice IMO and it's free - check the instructions for VirtualDub as cropping can be done as a stream copy and won't involve recoding.

No, it will require reencoding.