Crop to other ratio

HwKok

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2009 14:09 Messages: 28 Offline

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Jul 26, 2011 04:38

Hello all,

Does anybody has a good tip on how to crop a video to a part of the video in an other ratio?
Let me explain: when you have a clip of 16:9, you can only crop to a part of the video in the 16:9 ratio.

But I only want to use for example the lower part (about 1/3th of the video) or only the right half of the video.
PowerDirector requires me to crop in 16:9 ratio. Is there any option to crop in another ratio?

Or an other way to achieve this? Massive.

CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Jul 26, 2011 05:17

Hi

In the PIP designer you can use a square/rectangle MASK to create a 4:3 ratio and set the transparency settings to 100%.

Good luck Happing editing

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ynotfish

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

Jul 26, 2011 06:00

Hi there -

You're right. Cropping won't do it.

Masking will... uncheck the maintain aspect ratio checkbox.

Cheers - Tony
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PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Jul 26, 2011 10:12

Another way to divide the screen while keeping the full picture, using the mask and TV wall effect


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HwKok

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2009 14:09 Messages: 28 Offline

Jul 28, 2011 04:28

Thanks for all your comments, very much appreciated.
I was looking for something like ynotfish posted!

Sometimes its so simple

Massive.