Crop / CropBottom

Crop (clip, int left, int top, int width, int height, bool "align")
Crop (clip, int left, int top, int -right, int -bottom, bool "align")
CropBottom (clip, int count, bool align)

Crop crops excess pixels off of each frame.

If your source video has 720x480 resolution, and you want to reduce it to 352x240 for VideoCD, here's the correct way to do it:

# Convert CCIR601 to VCD, preserving the correct aspect ratio
ReduceBy2
Crop(4,0,352,240)

If a negative value is entered in the width and height these are also treated as offsets. For example:

# Crop 16 pixels all the way around the picture, regardless of image size:
Crop(16,16,-16,-16)

In v2.53 an option align (false by default) is added:
Cropping an YUY2/RGB32 image is always mod4 (four bytes). However, when reading x bytes (an int), it is faster when the read is aligned to a modx placement in memory. MMX/SSE likes 8-byte alignment and SSE2 likes 16-byte alignment. If the data is NOT aligned, each read/write operation will be delayed at least 4 cycles. So images are always aligned to mod16 when they are created by AviSynth.

If an image has been cropped, they will sometimes be placed unaligned in memory - "align = true" will copy the entire frame from the unaligned memory placement to an aligned one. So if the penalty of the following filter is larger than the penalty of a complete image copy, using "align = true" will be faster. Especially when it is followed by smoothers.

The alternative CropBottomsyntax is useful for cropping garbage off the bottom of a clip captured from VHS tape. It removes count lines from the bottom of each frame.

In order to preserve the data structure of the different colorspaces, the following mods should be used. You will not get an error message if they are not obeyed, but it may create strange artifacts.

In RGB:
width no restriction
height no restriction if video is progressive
height mod-2 if video is interlaced

In YUY2:
width mod-2
height no restriction if video is progressive
height mod-2 if video is interlaced

In YV12:
width mod-2
height mod-2 if video is progressive
height mod-4 if video is interlaced

NOTE: The resize functions optionally allow fractional pixel cropping of the input frame, this results in a weighting being applied to the edge pixels being resized.  These options may be used if the mod-n format dimension restriction of crop are inconvienient. See Resize Functions. In sum -- "For cropping off hard artifacts like VHS head noise or leterbox borders always use Crop. For extracting a portion of an image and to maintain accurate edge resampling use the resize cropping parameters." (Doom9 thread)

$Date: 2005/03/24 22:07:08 $