Originally posted by: Patrick R.

It's a little more complicated than just cutting off the black bars.

Yeah, I know that. I was just simplifying my question. Although I must say, this process does seem a bit more complicated on a Windows machine. I've done this type conversion on my Mac, and I don't have to go through that many steps. I've gotten some pretty good results. I bascially use Quicktime to re-adjust the picture and then apply some filters to clean it up. Sometimes, depending on the video's original aspect ratio, I do go through some other steps though.