Hi folks,
I would like to convert a 2.35:1 DVD movie I have to avi. In a few scenes it has a brief subtitle appearing underneath the movie frame, which is 'burned in' (ie. can't be switched on or off). For simplicity, I was going to encode the movie to avi and only crop out the top letterbox. I am assuming it doesn't take a signficant amount of encoding data to encode the bottom letterbox, given it's completely black for 99.9% of the movie.
However, if it does waste a significant amount of space in the avi file, I'd consider trying to make my own subtitle .srt file to go with the avi; and crop the bottom letterbox as well.
What do you recommend?
Cheers,
B