the art of UNCROPPING a movie. Please UNCROP ME now!! Uncrop me!!!

[ungeraynrand]

I wanna add subtitles to a movie that I am backing UP. But I don't want the subtitles to get in the way of the actual movie. So I want black bars at the bottom. If a DVD source doesn't come with these black bars, what should I do to get it????

[dvdyke]

Can't be done. However there is a player I hear that can put subtitles in overlay underneatht the movie on TV out. But I cannot remember the name sorry.

[Schultz]

There are a couple DirectShow filters that do this like DirectVobSub and DivxG400 they allow you to Extend a video to 4:3 which place the Black bars on the top and bottem then have either filter display the sub in the black portion.

[wmansir]

just incase you want to actually know how to put the bars onto the video, you can use the Virtualdub resize filter, just use the letterbox section.

[dvdyke]

Would that not require recompression? If so that is bad.

[wmansir]

Yes, adding the bars back will require a (re)encode.

If it was a divx source that would be a problem, but the original post said the DVD source didn't have bars (must be anamorphic) and he was backing up from that source.