How can I crop a full video?

Mr19th

Member Location: Atlanta, GA Joined: Dec 28, 2009 15:41 Messages: 83 Offline

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May 01, 2012 17:16

I shot a video and found out that the camera was set at an angle, so when you watch the video, your head is sort of tilted to level the picture. How do I tilt and crop the video (FULL VIDEO), so it starts and stops edited? The only cropping options I've found are to happen while the video is playing, zooming in and out. I want to tilt it so it's level and then crop the video so it fills the frame. When I tilt the frame, I'll lose some of the corners, but if I crop the video down. It will still be a full frame.

Thanks -

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 02, 2012 11:10

Quote: I shot a video and found out that the camera was set at an angle, so when you watch the video, your head is sort of tilted to level the picture. How do I tilt and crop the video (FULL VIDEO), so it starts and stops edited? The only cropping options I've found are to happen while the video is playing, zooming in and out. I want to tilt it so it's level and then crop the video so it fills the frame. When I tilt the frame, I'll lose some of the corners, but if I crop the video down. It will still be a full frame.

Thanks

You can rotate videos.

Put your video on the PIP track, leave Main Video track blank.

Click on the video in PIP, see the Green dot on top of the video point your mouse until the rotate arrows, drag with your mouse to the orientation you want, then grab the corner of the box and expand the video to fill the frame.

You may have to drag opposite corners to get the video to fill the frame.

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Mr19th

Member Location: Atlanta, GA Joined: Dec 28, 2009 15:41 Messages: 83 Offline

May 04, 2012 16:30

Thank You -

ganesha86

Member Joined: Jan 16, 2012 00:54 Messages: 106 Offline

May 08, 2012 23:32

In PD8, the video cropping tool can be found by clicking on the Power Tools button, and choosing Video Crop.