Cropped footage..

Hi All,
Sorry, this isn't really Encore specific, more of a general query.
Whilst trying to sort out some quality issues on an Encore authored DVD I realised that our video director had put a job crop on the footage being encoded.
To explain. We shoot on Digibeta, edit using Avid DNX Adrenaline,and then encode using Cleaner XL to Mpeg2 for dvd authoring in encore.
The problem is our video director added a job crop to the source footage in Cleaner to 'remove the black lines around the picture'. Now my worry iis if 10 pixels are being cropped all round the picture before encoding to mpeg 2, doesn't cleaner then have to scale this back up to full 720x576 for the final mpeg2 files? If so, surely this is going to add picture noise as it interpolates pixels?
Now my understanding is that all pictures off tape in PAL (or NTSC) have a small amount of black around the picture, hence underscanning monitors etc. I believe this is normal and not something that should be cropped. So that means that this small black line/s would also be visible on DVD on computer, or DVD playing to an LCD or plasma screen rather than a CRT (which has a fairly large crop due to the tube)??
Please confirm I'm not going mad!!
Thanks,
Mike

BLSmith2112 wrote:
I'm at work now using a different editor, but when I get home (in approx. 2hrs) I will try this exactly.
To be clear:
Delete every single keyframe that exists so that it appears as a full screen video as it originally did.
DO NOT Set keyframes for the right and left crop values in the places that need it with Bezier.
Position the clip without key frames.
I have a very strong feeling that the video will still be jerky as heck as it trys to maintain the crop marks, however I will do this and upload another video showing exactly what I have done from start to finish.
It will be jerky if you set keyframes.
Set keyframes only when the clip is about to roll out of the scene.
The first keyframe should be towards the end of the clip

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