masked videos=white border in fullscreen?

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masked videos=white border in fullscreen?

if i capture some tv for example with an analog converter, it doens't fill the 640x480 window fully, so i make a mask to get rid of the black border. looks fine in it's window, but when i go to full screen, the entire movie has a fine (1 pixel) white border around it. (fine when full frame of lit stuff, but awful for dark scenes) if it was in the video it would be scaled along with the video to more than one pixel. if i use vlc or another player it ignores my mask. if i export to h.264 while masked it makes permanent grey or green 1 pixel wide bars on the side that get scaled along with the video (top and bottom fine) when i go fullscreen.

/just want a tv show with edges that disappear into the darkness
//if only h.264 exported masks right OR fullscreen played them right i'd be happy 😟

any tricks out there?

PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Jan 23, 2006 4:19 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 23, 2006 8:52 PM in response to Ghetto Chris

I've noticed the glitch too.
It seems to shift one pixel down and one pixel to the right on some of my files and skin track movies.
What happens when you enter full screen mode and then hit the Command-3 key combination? How about Command and 0, 1, 2 and 3?
Have you tried making your mask track one pixel larger in size? 641X481

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Answer 2

Ghetto Chris Author

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Jan 24, 2006 4:50 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

i tried apple 1, 2, and 3 for actual, double, and full size, always a white border in full screen. at actual size the side borders are bigger than the top and bottom, double and full it's a crisp 1 pixel grey line all the way around. i made the mask file 481x641 and 482x642 with no changes at all, all of them cut way inside the edges of the picture to avoid that border.

strange part is at full size (more than double size for sure with these files) the border is exactly 1 pixel, not scaled up to 2.x pixels like you would expect if it was in the movie, not just the player sucking with masks. guess i'll hope someone notices and fixes in a future release. just like with the h.264 encoding border with masks. i guess the white border all the way around is better than a neon green one on the right side which i get with h.264

/someone not testing QT with simple rectangular masks it seems

here's a screenshot of my movie in fullscreen at double size so you can see the whole border:

http://www.farkimages.com/view.php?img=4c9f24b0f5.jpg

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