Automatic Moving Crop (4:3 -> 16:9)

FranceBB · 6th September 2015, 00:22

Hi everyone,
I have to deal with an old 4:3 DVD and I would like to crop it into 16:9 (please, don't kill me for this) and restore it.

The source is interlaced and with a lot of crap such as raimbow/dot crawl, a lot of static grain and other stuff, but I can get rid of everything.

Anyway, I'm here just to ask you about this crop because I remember that, time ago, when we used to watch things on our 4:3 TVs, sometimes the pan & scan function was used in order to do a moving cropping.

Silly example:

Amorphic source

16:9

4:3 with PAN & SCAN

So, I was looking for a filter that is able to perform a PAN & SCAN automatically; "Animate" is a good one, but I have to specify the starting and ending frames.
Is there a way to make this process automatic?
If not, is there an editing software to use as replacement to avisynth? (so I can create a lossless with that software and then filter everything with avisynth and x264).

Thank you ^_^

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FranceBB Broadcast Encoder Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, UK Posts: 2,905	Automatic Moving Crop (4:3 -> 16:9) Hi everyone, I have to deal with an old 4:3 DVD and I would like to crop it into 16:9 (please, don't kill me for this) and restore it. The source is interlaced and with a lot of crap such as raimbow/dot crawl, a lot of static grain and other stuff, but I can get rid of everything. Anyway, I'm here just to ask you about this crop because I remember that, time ago, when we used to watch things on our 4:3 TVs, sometimes the pan & scan function was used in order to do a moving cropping. Silly example: Amorphic source 16:9 4:3 with PAN & SCAN So, I was looking for a filter that is able to perform a PAN & SCAN automatically; "Animate" is a good one, but I have to specify the starting and ending frames. Is there a way to make this process automatic? If not, is there an editing software to use as replacement to avisynth? (so I can create a lossless with that software and then filter everything with avisynth and x264). Thank you ^_^ Last edited by FranceBB; 6th September 2015 at 00:25.