Cropping A Video Then Re-stretching The Picture

[Speed Damage]

I have a clip from TV, and during part of the video the tv station squeezed the picture and put a bar of the schedule of upcoming shows. I want to remove this. I tried cropping it out, but when I save the video, it just letter boxes it. I want to have it stretch the remaining picture back to the correct resolution (so you can't really notice anything changed, other than maybe a drop in quality).

I tried doing this in Vegas Video, but even when I save it with 'stretch video to match resolution' it does nothing (both on and off it just letter boxes it).

Is there a way to do this a Vegas, or any other program?

[ChristophFe]

you could do this with virtual-dub using the Filter called resize

i think this must work...

[Speed Damage]

Thanks, going to try it out now, seems like it should work!

Edit: Well the resize option wasn't what I was looking for, but there was another filter that does it. However, the effect on my video is a tween, so it would be almost impossible to do this manually, having to save each seperate frame and put them back together, since you can only apply the filters to the whole video.

[M4ST3R M1K3]

An avisynth script may work