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I use alt+i to crop 60 lines from the top for 2.39 movies encoded on 16:9 DVDs. Then I crop 60 lines from the bottom and enough from the sides to make the count 800 pixels per line. Then I watch the DVD at fullscreen at 800x600 resolution.

Is there a way to do this crop with out manually using the alt+i, alt+k, alt+j, and alt+l hotkeys each time?

Stephen

You can go to Preferences > Video > (check the "Advanced options" box) scroll down to Custom crop-ratio list and type your desired setting, save and restart the video.

Writing in a Custom aspect ratio of 9:5 and choosing it widens each line from 852 to 864.

Writing in a Custom crop ratio of 864:360 crops the height down to 360 as I want.

But since these are all ratios, I still cannot specify a hard crop of 60 pixel each to top and bottom and 32 pixels from both left and right. Custom crop ratio will only crop either the top and bottom or the sides (depending on what the ratio is), but not both.

This helps alot, since I only need to use alt+j and alt+l to crop the sides after that. Video cropping looks more promising though, if I knew how to enter the coordinates for that. Do you know what the format is? Thanks.

Stephen

OOPS correction,
I guess I cannot just manually crop the sides after selecting a custom crop and aspect ratio. Adding 800:480 to the crop list seems to do the trick. I guess I don't really have to crop the top and bottom when watching it in fullscreen mode. The idea is I don't want to resize the image, so I match the width of the lines to the width of the screen when watching in fullscreen mode.

Stephen