Hi Misrad,
If using the Video Crop tool gives you the proper cropping that you require, but it's only the zooming in and out that is the problem, you do have the option to set the Key Frames so that your Crop maintains it's position without the zooming in and out.
- Open Cropping Video window > manually set Crop size > position the Crop with the
blue diamond
- At the start/stop controls, you will see the Key Frame icons (diamonds)
- Slide the scrubber (or whatever you call it) to the right about an inch
- Click on the
double diamond with the plus sign icon, and choose Duplicate Previous Key Frame from the drop down menu
- Once the duplicate Key Frame is created, slide that Key Frame all the way to the right.
(till it appears to be under the last yellow diamond on the right)
Now upon playback, your Crop’s position and size, will remain constant for the whole duration of your clip. The setting of Key frames allows you to choose when and if a zoom in/out occurs.
Or... do some pre-production.
- Open a new project and put the clips you wish to Crop, into a PIP track.
- Open PIP Designer > (you may want to
uncheck Maintain Aspect Ratio)
- Click on Toggle icon (above Cancel button) >
uncheck Snap To Reference
- Size your clip to suit, by extending the unwanted portions outside the viewing pane/area
- Produce to the same format that you will be using to Produce your final production in (e.g. Mpeg2, Avi, Wmv, etc), and save and name this pre-produced file as "Cropped Bits Mpeg2" (?)
- Import "Cropped Bits Mpeg2" to main project.
I've used both these workaround options, and though they are not always a perfect solution, they do both work in a pinch.
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