Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I need some advice on video editing software for Linux. Can anybody
> recommend a good package? I think I've spoken before on this list
> about a huge library of VHS I'm getting digitised. Thankfully I've now
> managed to find a working solution. Sadly it's not Linux based
> but I'm ending up with several 8Gb mpgs that I need to edit.
>
> The problem is simple - and will be all too familiar to those of us who
> used VHS: tracking.
> I have a small horizontal line at the bottom of the screen where the
> image is "skewed" for want of a better word. I've tried unsuccessfully
> to fix the tracking and handle it within the capture software. No
> dice. So what I need is to crop the image. I've only ever used
> Windows movie maker so I'm a bit green here but I'd much rather play
> with something recommended than go through what is probably a maze of
> software - I had enough trouble of that nature trying to rip a DVD!!!
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
If the files you've got are already in the right sort of frame size,
e.g. 720x576, then cropping the edges and expanding the result to fill
the frame will inevitably lose quality. It might be better to just mask
off the blurry bit at the bottom, giving a black bar instead.
Just an idea (that I read somewhere on the interweb).
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
