How to edit video to remove "noise" near the bottom?

[JellyBaby]

I'm transfering some VCR tapes to digital format but the signal includes some garbage at the very bottom. I think it's head switching noise from the VCR. Is there any way to remove that? If it was a single BMP file I would simply slice off a dozen or so lines at the bottom using a picture editor. I don't know how to do that type of thing to an AVI. Help!

 

[gregor7777]

You're in luck, it's very easy. Most video editing/encoding progs have slider bars of some sort to clip the video. TmpgEnc for instance has very nice slider bars under the clip frame option.

Virtual dub has similiar options. Load the Null Transform filter and then hit cropping in the same menu from which you loaded the filter. After that it basicially is self explanatory.

Post if you have any more issues we can help with.

 

[JellyBaby]

gregor7777, bless you. That did the trick. I tried both suggestions but since I want to stick with AVI, the VirtualDub filter approach works best...I can even add a resize filter to restore the source resolution. I can't believe VirtualDub is free: it's very good.

 

[rbV5]

I can't believe VirtualDub is free: it's very good

Avery Lee has done a great job! Check out Donald Graft, he has authored some great free plugins for Vdub also. Its one of the great video processors out there at any price IMHO.