Video editing

[Robin Laing]

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I recently ventured into the world of video editing on my laptop.  Not
> knowing anything about the subject and it's feasibility on my FC4
> laptop, I did some research.  I eventually used Kino to capture videos.
> 
> The videos I captured are from an analog camera. It's hooked up to a
> Sony digital camera that is doing the conversion and then feeding the
> DVI to my laptop.  All of this is working great - good quality to boot.
> 
> The conversion reveals a blurry line along the bottom of the video.  I
> know why it's caused, but what I don't know is how to remove it. Kino
> doesn't appear to have an option to crop the frame, or to let me put a
> black strip across that bit to hide it.
> 
> Does anyone know how I could remove/hide the blurry line from the
> captured videos?  I'm going to encode the captured video, so I'd like to
> clean it up as much as possible before I do.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ranbir

If you really want to remove it, you could use mplayer/mencoder to 
expand the video and then crop it to keep the aspect ratio.


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Robin Laing