Cover up\Remove hard subtitles in MPEG2?

[kpic]

I have an MPEG2 video file that has hard subtitles , the good news is the video is letterbox and the subtitles all are in the lower black bar but not sure if I can cover them up in MPEG2 file? I could only find solution to AVI files using VirtualDub.

[BigCondor]

You can use program like TMPEnc Source Creator to trim away the black bars.

[kpic]

Won't that cause the aspect ratio to go off?
I still want the video to be letterbox because I am going to add my own subtitles.

[kpic]

Well I kind of figured out how to do it, not sure if there is an easier way.
In Canopus Procoder I tested a small segment & cropped out the bottom section which removed the subs but the video was then shifted down, so I simply re-encoded again this time cropping up and no subs!

[manono]

AviSynth's Letterbox command:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Letterbox

or, alternatively, Crop (or CropBottom) followed by AddBorders:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/CropBottom
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/AddBorders