How Do I Rotate an Entire Clip Eight Degrees Left and Crop to Eliminate Black Borders?

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Fabbian

Newbie Joined: Mar 08, 2015 13:27 Messages: 29 Offline

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Apr 12, 2015 07:39

I have a short clip shot with the camera not quite horizontal. I would like to fix it by rotating the clip. Then I want to crop the clip so no black borders show around the edge. I thought Power Tools had the answer. I selected the clip, clicked the Power Tools button and selected Crop. I used the green handle to adjust the rotation angle. Then I used a white corner handle to crop the image just enough to get rid of the black borders at the edges. So far so good. But when I previewed the clip it gradually rotated itself back to the original off-kilter setting by the end of the clip. How do I preserve my rotation and crop settings through the entire clip?

Could you point me to a tutorial on YouTube that addresses that kind of editing?

PlaySound

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

Apr 12, 2015 08:49

Do the rotation set and zoom directly in the preview window.

Select the clip in the timeline, the preview is shown a central circle click on the line hold and rotate the image.

Click on a cue ball displayed on each side (edge), hold and drag out enlarging the image.

The adjustment made will be applied to the entire clip.

By the way you did yesterday in Crop Video, editor.Make the adjustment at the beginning of the clip, go to the end, click the "diamond +" and choose Duplicate keiframe..

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Fabbian

Newbie Joined: Mar 08, 2015 13:27 Messages: 29 Offline

Apr 12, 2015 17:08

Thanks. That did the trick. I adjusted it in the preview window. When I dragged the cue ball handle in the lower right corner it seemed to affect only one side of the image. I had to drag the upper left cue ball handle to get the other half of the image enlarged.

The crop operation works just the opposite. You drag a corner handle in to make the frame showing the cropped area smaller, then it enlarges the outlined area to fill the frame. A bit confusing, but with the help of the undo function I got it sorted out.