Black-bar cropping woes

Topaz Video AI General
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I am not getting good results with the option to zoom to remove top- and bottom black bars. I even used an avisynth pre-processor (.avs) input file to pre-crop. But, whatever I do, VEAI always shows like a 20p black bar at the top (and also in the output, btw); and worse, I suspect it’s downshifting the entire movie by 20p.

I can ‘solve’ this manually, by just adjusting zoom from, say 263% to 270%. But I shouldn’t have to (after all, you’re losing extra footage that way). I hope this will get fixed one day.

2

Handbrake does a good job of stripping black bars as a pre-processing step, it detects them accurately, so in most cases you wont have to do any additional messing about.

3

So does AviSynth. Problem is that VEAI (for reasons unknown) decides to move down the movie a bit, leaving a ca. 20px gap at the top, regardless of how I crop it.