Load a 720 x 480 px VOB/DVD file with a non square (4:3) pixel type, then crop it.
The minute you try to adjust the right hand side, it will snap to 640px maximum width and not let you go any further despite it actually being 720px wide.
I have reported this issue before ages ago and had to do a workaround to mitigate it at the time, it appears to be back again.
Windows 11, up to date drivers, latest version of Topaz Video AI.
The team is aware of this issue and actively looking into it at this time.
I hate this old square/none square pixel thing, today every display has square pixels. I know it wasn’t learlier the case and needs adaptation. ITU specification you may have to cut some pixels away, but to keep it simple just can be ignored. What matters is whether it should be displayed 16:9 or 4:3 and without using DAR that strechts it when play, always use native pixels fits the aspect ratio.
I would simply stretch the 720x480 to 720x540 in VDub, Hybrid ore elswere and if it’s 16:9, stretch 720x480 to codec-friendly 864x486. For PAL go from 720x576 to 768x576 or 1024x576 for 16:9
The video appears fine in Topaz, it is not squashed and the aspect doesn’t need adjusting so I really don’t want to have to ENCODE using another program first, I simply want Topaz to STOP preventing me from selecting the whole width of the video.
To be exact.
When I load the video it tells me it is 720x480px, in the crop dialog it has w 720px, h 480px, x 0px, y 0px.
That is great, however when I select the right handle and try to move it, even a fraction, it jumps to the 640 px mark, it will not then go above that value, cutting off the last 80 pixels of the video on the right. I can see the video beyond the handle, it is displayed correctly, I just cannot move the handle past 640, nor can I type in a value manually over 640, anything over 640 is reset to 640 px. I can move the left handle as far right as it allows until the video is 128 pixels wide, but the right handle still won’t move past 640 px even though there is video displayed
there.
This is simply the program stopping me from selecting anything over 640 px, even though the video is 720 px wide, it even says so on the right ‘Output resolution: 720 x 480 (Original)’.
Check DAR value of the Source, TVAI shows you 4:3 640x480 in case of the DAR and 720x480 is not 4:3. So croping into TVAI for anamorph content is useless. I had also a case with 720x576 16:9 source set square pixel and TVAI shows it correct but did the encode without stretch and sets a 16:9 DAR…exactly what I don’t wont because the stretch part when play is not model improved
Topas says they are working on it make it better, but I do not expect a solution here. I give up and use VDub or Hybrid to bring it to as it should be and I do deinterlacing also there in one step, export lossless FFV1 or AVI and give TVAI this
Considering how much I have paid for Topaz (upgraded twice so far on top of original purchase) it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect them to be able to do something open source software can achieve easily.
I do use another program to render a mov file and crop that, but I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO.
This is a bug in the UI for cropping – when the pixel aspect ratio is not square, the cropping box does not allow you to select the whole image. You are forced to a cropping box that is significantly narrower width than the underlying video.
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