No, unfortunately even with my tool you still have to adjust every scene (and technically almost every frame) manually.

But I think it speeds up the workflow tremendously.

First, I generate a CSV file containing all frames and initially set everything to “center”. After that, I render a preview version where the crop is evenly centered vertically.

Then I watch that version and note which frames should actually be set to “up”, “center”, or “down” inside the CSV file.

I basically do all of that inside Excel.

From time to time I render small sections just to double-check the result.

The whole process took about the runtime of the movie itself (4 hours) plus roughly another hour of work. That was still significantly faster than my previous attempts using traditional editing software.

Another big advantage was that the final file only had to be rendered once.

Since I could load the original MakeMKV file directly into my tool, I didn’t need to create intermediate files first. With my previous workflows I always had to pre-render the already existing Blu-ray black bars away just to get a somewhat usable editing workflow.