Avisynth: Autofitcd Plugin to Crop Letterbox?

[audi2honda]

Hi guys.

I've been reading up and don't see that any of you are using this plugin. I did some comparisons between Moviestacker and FitCD with the autofitcd plugin and the later is better I think on letterboxed movies

For example the movie the Game is 2.35:1 letterboxed widescreen encoded as 4:3. This means the movie has black bars as part of the video stream. When I used Moviestacker to get a bicubic resize it game me 688x480 with TV overscan of 1.

Using the fitCD and autofitcd plugin I get 688x288. So what this tells me is that Moviestacker is producing settings that encode the black bars of the letterboxed movie. This is a big waste of bitrate and encoding space. The FitCD plugin is accurately measuring movie with letterboxing, hacking off the borders then it re-adds them with the addborders() command at the end.

Quality is better this way because you get better use of your bits. I was suprised to see zero hits for the autofitcd plugin here, of course I'm a newbie to KVCD, but I thought I'd share.

[kwag]

Hi audi2honda,

That is basically what GripFit does. I haven't got around to update the current adaptive script to use it. GripFit has been used in the 2.0x current script for a while

-kwag

[audi2honda]

Hi kwag, Thanks for being so helpful with my questions.

I'll keep an eye out for your gripfit when you get it into the optimal script. I guess i'll use fitcd for now.

All this scripting is so new to me and so powerful.

[kwag]

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Originally Posted by audi2honda

Hi kwag, Thanks for being so helpful with my questions.

I'll keep an eye out for your gripfit when you get it into the optimal script. I guess i'll use fitcd for now.

Try MovieStacker instead of FitCD
Also, the script was just updated with GripFit moments ago

Quote:

All this scripting is so new to me and so powerful.

-kwag