Cropping/cutting rectangular area of DivX AVI file

[eljainc]

Hello,

We have some video in which we would like to crop/cut out or at the least blur out so that it cannot be recognized. What tools are out there that will do this? Free or open source would be ideal. We would want a method that does not result in any further loss of quality as it is already compressed using DivX.

Thanks.

Mike

[Guest]

You're going to have to re-encode.

Is the position and size of the area fixed?

[eljainc]

The position of the area which needs to be "blanked" or "blacked" out is fixed.

Mike

[Guest]

As I said, you'll have to re-compress. An easy way to do the blacking out is to use VirtualDub's internal 'fill' filter, which allows you to fill a specified rectangle with a desired color.

[CWR03]

You could create an .avs script which will allow you to "play" the file with the cropping you'd need, but it will only work on a PC. It would not re-encode the file, but instead will make it play as if it were cropped and resized the way you wanted.