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BillyBoy wrote on 3/7/2003, 11:30 PM
Simple way. Click on the pan/crop button at the end of your vid. Go to the first keyframe in the FX window that pops up, move your cursor over one of the corner handles. It should change to a double headed arrow. Drag SLOWLY down and in towards the center at a 45 degree angle while you watch your external monitor until the offending line disappears. Click the + button. Watch video and adjust if it is higher elsewhere in the video. Done.

Chances are it is in the overscan area anyway and won't show up once played back on a TV. If so, you don't really have to do anything. This will slightly zoom in on the video. You did say it was a narrow line at the bottom of the frame. <wink>
SteveandPam wrote on 3/8/2003, 12:17 AM
Cool! That did it. Thanks for the help!
sdmoore wrote on 3/8/2003, 4:48 AM
I think this is normal for VCRs when they change from the end of one frame to the start of the next. BillyBoy is correct about the overscan - you should not need to do anything since your TV won't show it.

Cheers,

Scott
dreamlx wrote on 3/8/2003, 5:06 AM
hi,

even if the tv doesn't show it, I can imagine it would be better replacing it by black, as otherwise space for mpeg compression is wasted for this.

Bye,
David
Tyler.Durden wrote on 3/8/2003, 7:14 AM
Hi,

Methinks:


This sounds like "headswitching", which is normal for consumer VCRs.

You might consider cropping just the bottom using pan crop with "stretch to fill frame" unchecked, and drag on just the bottom crop handle. Using pan/crop for zooming in on the image will soften it, and it is already lower-grade...

You might not need to add a keyframe (+) if you are modifying over the entire duration... the extra keyframe may add unwanted motion effects.



HTH, MPH

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