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Cropping videos
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I've been searching the internet for a way to crop some movies I have on my HD in Mac OS X and the only thing I've found so far is Sorenson Squeeze. When I say crop, I mean taking only the middle third or so of a movie and then getting rid of the leftover borders. That's all good and dandy except the demo version of Squeeze leaves watermarks all over the place on any video it touches, which renders them somewhat unusable for the presentation I'm putting together. Is there a small piece of cheap software somewhere that can do that? Or even better, some way of getting Final Cut Express to do the same thing? I've poked through it a number of times but can't find anything that seems to let me do that. And I've poked through the 1000-page manual as well, to no avail.
Help!
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Living, working, and freezing in the Canadian north.
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Originally posted by blizzard:
I've been searching the internet for a way to crop some movies I have on my HD in Mac OS X and the only thing I've found so far is Sorenson Squeeze. When I say crop, I mean taking only the middle third or so of a movie and then getting rid of the leftover borders. That's all good and dandy except the demo version of Squeeze leaves watermarks all over the place on any video it touches, which renders them somewhat unusable for the presentation I'm putting together. Is there a small piece of cheap software somewhere that can do that? Or even better, some way of getting Final Cut Express to do the same thing? I've poked through it a number of times but can't find anything that seems to let me do that. And I've poked through the 1000-page manual as well, to no avail.
Help!
You can do this easily in Quicktime Pro using a 'mask'. I found this link as a starter - there are probably better instructions out there, but you will easily figure it out.
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You can also try DiVA if your video is in MPEG-2 format. I think it also handles PAL DV in a sort of unsupported way...
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Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Nov 1999
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Ah thank you Jacke...that is exactly what I was looking for! The Quicktime mask thing is helpful to know for other things, as well.
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Living, working, and freezing in the Canadian north.
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