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There are black bars around a movie. Can I crop them away (like I would if black bars were in a Photoshop image -- select and crop), so that the movie ends up without the bars?

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try Stream Clip, but I've decided to also try exporting the movie to +Image Sequence+ (it's only a short movie), then batching the entire lot in Photoshop. That will allow me to crop, resample, colour correct, sharpen and whatever else I decide to experiment with. Is that a sensible way to improve the quality of a movie?
That brings up three more questions (these are related to a recent post of mine, but no one has answered that one):
*QUES 1*
Can QT PRO tell me which frames in a movie are Key Frames?
*QUES 2*
Will a Key Frame appear to be an obviously better image than those surrounding it? That doesn't appear to be the case, as I manually went through the first 200 frames and couldn't see any obvious Key Frame. Maybe the frames that surround them are so close in quality that you can't tell.
*QUES 3*
When exporting, and I select Automatic for the Key Frame option, does that lock in the original Key Frames, or are Key Frames inserted only where QT PRO thinks they are needed? Or does it do both -- keep the original, plus extras where needed?

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