How to apply video crop settings to multiple clips?

Loy72

Newbie Joined: Sep 03, 2014 20:48 Messages: 2 Offline

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Sep 03, 2014 23:21

I have 4 clips from my GoPro that were taken with the wide angle setting. Since all 4 videos are taken using the same angle, I would like to crop all 4 clips using the exact cropping "window.".

With one clip, I go into Power tools, set the desired crop, apply to start/end keyframes and all is great.

Now what I can't figure out is how to apply this same crop to the other 3 clips.

I thought I could copy and paste the keyframes from clip 1 to all the others but that doesn't apply the crop.

Is there a way to combine all 4 clips prior to the crop?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Loy.

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Sep 04, 2014 02:40

Hi Loy -

No - you can't copy and paste cropping keyframes. That feature applies to lots of other things, but not Video Crop. There's a list attached.

If you'd applied your "crop" in PiP Designer (which effectively does exactly the same thing), you could copy & paste the keyframes to the other clips.

The other possibility would be to line up your clips in the timeline & produce them as one single video file - then crop the produced file.

Cheers - Tony


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fkaMikeB

Senior Member Location: Ohio, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2014 23:22 Messages: 217 Offline

Sep 04, 2014 10:42

Thanks. This solves a problem I was having trying to crop out the edges of video captured from Hi8 tapes. I will try PiP designer. Mike B.
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PlaySound

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Sep 04, 2014 11:31

Quote: I have 4 clips from my GoPro that were taken with the wide angle setting. Since all 4 videos are taken using the same angle, I would like to crop all 4 clips using the exact cropping "window.".

With one clip, I go into Power tools, set the desired crop, apply to start/end keyframes and all is great.

Now what I can't figure out is how to apply this same crop to the other 3 clips.

I thought I could copy and paste the keyframes from clip 1 to all the others but that doesn't apply the crop.

Is there a way to combine all 4 clips prior to the crop?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Loy.

If you use Power Tools / Video Crop and then Copy and Paste keyframes does not work here.

On the other hand if you resize the video directly in the Preview, Copy and Paste works.

Click on one clip, the preview is shown white balls to every edge (side), drag it out or go inside will resize the image.

Adjusted one clip, Copy Keiframes atributes, select other clips and Paste Keiframes atributes.

Not everything can be copied, see table by ynotfish shown.

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fkaMikeB

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Sep 05, 2014 11:17

Thanks playsound. That's very helpful. Mike B.
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Loy72

Newbie Joined: Sep 03, 2014 20:48 Messages: 2 Offline

Sep 05, 2014 14:14

Thanks for the help to both ynotfish & playsound.

Prior to this post, I tried to use the PIP designer but I couldn't figure out how to crop the video. I'm use to resizing the "window" to the cropped area which would just shrink the video and add black borders.

Not until playsound mention "drag it out" did it all dawn on me how to use the PIP designer.

Works great.

fkaMikeB

Senior Member Location: Ohio, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2014 23:22 Messages: 217 Offline

Sep 06, 2014 22:42

Whoah! NewBlue Essentials fx has a preset that corrects overscan. And it worked very nicely.

...still learning.

Mike B.
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