More on cropping, I'm afraid

[blutach]

Greets avisynth masters :)

I have a vid (PAL VOB) with very bad head noise top and bottom.

Now Crop (0,8,0,-8) works nicely, except it makes the VOB 720 x 560. This plays OK in my standalones but I expect it stretches the video vertically by a few percent (16/560) and I'm a bit finicky about things coming out right.

Is there a better filter to use? What I'm really looking to do is put a few px of hard matte top and bottom without altering the AR within the VOB. Perhaps Crop followed by AddBorders (0,8,0,8)?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree and my crop is just fine?

TIA.

Regards

[check]

Is there a better filter to use? What I'm really looking to do is put a few px of hard matte top and bottom without altering the AR within the VOB. Perhaps Crop followed by AddBorders (0,8,0,8)?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree and my crop is just fine?

TIA.

Regards[/color]
If your SAP resizes the 720x560 to 720x576, you'll need to addborders() (or overcrop to maintain AR). If it doesn't resize (which I'd expect is more likely), you don't need to change anything.

[kumi]

Try Letterbox() instead of Crop() + AddBorders()

[blutach]

Aaah, I see kumi. Thanks for that.

The doco says letterbox is faster than crop + addborders so I'll try that. Plus, I guess it doesn't need to be mod anything. So perhaps letterbox (2,2) might work?

Regards

[Alex_ander]

You don't need border addition with Letterbox(), it doesn't crop, just covers with black (or selected color) keeping original resolution:
Letterbox(8,8)# if black is OK

[blutach]

Appreciate that. I'll report back with the results :)

Regards

[blutach]

Just reporting back. Letterbox was perfect for my needs. Thanks everyone.

Regards