DVD Has odd Frame Sizes with Black Bars

[TheLastOfThem]

So my Courage DVD has an intro that has 8 pixels of black borders to the left and right..and then a main episode that fills the frame entirely.

How would I go about fixing this? I cropped the intro's 16 pixels..but now the frame size DOES NOT MATCH the DVD episode.

Should I just retain the black bars or stretch out the frame size of the intro to the size of the episode (which had no black borders and filles 720x480)? I feel like doing the latter...but then the aspect ratio would not be correct - would it?

[poisondeathray]

Why do you think you have to "fix" it?

Is the AR off in the first place?

If the AR is correct, then yes, stretching it would distort the AR a bit.

Most people don't care about borders, especially if they are there for a reason. Some people don't care about minor AR distortions. Some people do other things like fill in the borders with something like a mirrored edge or other edge fill techniques

[manono]

You could keep the aspect ratio correct by cropping the 8 from left and right, then ~6 from top and bottom, followed by a resize to 720x480 for that intro part. But, like pdr, I'm not sure I'd bother.

[TheLastOfThem]

Thank you everyone. I will leave it a bit distorted. Again not sure I want to take away any actual picture data just to have correct AR. It's unrecognizable (not like they're wide as a sandwich or anything).