Remove black lines

[jriker1]

I have some 720x480 video that I rendered with my NLE software. The software automatically puts black bars on all four sides when I trim off the garbage from the side to keep it compliant. Is there a way to strip off the black bars on all four sides and resave the AVI without re-rendering? If there is a way to visually see what I am selecting to trim would be helpful also.

Oh, and before we get into a discussion about aspect ratios, I need to trim things off because the left and right sides have different size black bars from the source. So I want to strip both of them off and create equal ones on both sides in my AVISynth script.
Thanks.

JR

[unskinnyboy]

Which NLE is this? Isn't there an option in it to tell the software not to add the black bars and resize the cropped frame to 720x480 instead? If it will add the black bars anyway, then later, in AVISynth, you can Crop() them away evenly on both sides and then AddBorders().

[jriker1]

Which NLE is this? Isn't there an option in it to tell the software not to add the black bars and resize the cropped frame to 720x480 instead? If it will add the black bars anyway, then later, in AVISynth, you can Crop() them away evenly on both sides and then AddBorders().

I am using Sony Vegas 8. Here's the deal, left side has say 40 pixels of black. Right side has say 15 pixels of black. So they are not equal. I crop them off with Vegas, however when I render it put cleaner versions of the original black bars back again. So again I am left with 40+ on the left and 15+ on the right. If I could strip them completely, I could just tell AVISynth to put equal bars on both sides to center it. It's not seemingly easy in Vegas to center the version that you have flagged to be cropped when rendering.

JR