Toonman Posted May 25, 2007 Report Share Posted May 25, 2007 Is there any way that I can crop video. Such as cropping a video so that all you can see is feet or a small thin line of it. I do understand that this has to be an overlay but I just want to crop the video, not make it smaller. Please HELP!!! Advertising Not Allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted May 26, 2007 Report Share Posted May 26, 2007 Yes, use the overlay with a PNG file with transparent background or if your editor doesn't support that (PhotoSuite 9 does), then you can use chroma key to make part of an image 'see through'. Just depends on what you are trying to do. Need more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonman Posted May 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Well the look I am going for is just cropping video. I need to make the video smaller. I tried inserting an overlay as just a black box and adjusting where I want the video being cropped but it just seems pointless. I just need to cut the clip in half so you can only see the bottom portion of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sknis Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Well the look I am going for is just cropping video. I need to make the video smaller. I tried inserting an overlay as just a black box and adjusting where I want the video being cropped but it just seems pointless. I just need to cut the clip in half so you can only see the bottom portion of it. Did you try what I sent you in rely to your pm-- video on the main track and an image on the overlay? Do you need more of an explanation of the longer post I relied with? Quote: Why don't you try putting the video on the main track and then overlay the still image over it. You can place the image where you want it to block the video. Remember to account for the TV safe zone. I think that will give you the effect you are looking for as long as the video you want to see is near the bottom of the video screen. If it is not, you may want to try playing around with multiple overlay tracks where you see part of the still image, the thin line of video and then the rest of the image as the second overlay track. You would have to crop the image into two different images, the top section and then the bottom section. Not difficult but you will have to play with it a bit." Also remember if you have EMC 9, the forum where you posted, you have up to 5 external overlay tracks and an equal number of internal overlay tracks. What product do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 I just need to cut the clip in half so you can only see the bottom portion of it.Do you mean AND have that remaining portion fill the screen? Why not just use teh Zoom feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sknis Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Do you mean AND have that remaining portion fill the screen? Why not just use teh Zoom feature? The way I understood it was sort of having the bottom section of a video as a moving banner across the bottom of the screen while the images showed above it. Perhaps I read it wrong (twice?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 That's what I thought until the OP's second post. Guess we'll have to wait for the response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonman Posted May 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 I have Videowave 9. This is hard to explain Picture a video, now cut that video in half, you will only see half the video, i want to know if i can cut it in half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Yes, but what will be in the other half? Nothing? Blank? or another video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonman Posted May 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Nothing it will just be black. I think i figured it out. I just put an overlay on the internal track of the video. I still want to know if theres a crop feature though. Thanks for the help everyone! Another thing. Is there a way for me to to take the native audio from a video and just keep the audio and remove the rest of the clip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 No, there is no 'crop' feature. I've used and own several video editors and I haven't seen that type of feature in any of them. Using an overlay should do what you want then. There are several options as pointed out in previous posts. PNG with transparency would be the most simple solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonman Posted May 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Another thing. Is there a way for me to to take the native audio from a video and just keep the audio and remove the rest of the clip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted May 28, 2007 Report Share Posted May 28, 2007 Another thing. Is there a way for me to to take the native audio from a video and just keep the audio and remove the rest of the clip? Sure. Right click on the video clip in Media Manager, and select Extract audio. Once you save it, use it however you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Is there any way that I can crop video. Such as cropping a video so that all you can see is feet or a small thin line of it. I do understand that this has to be an overlay but I just want to crop the video, not make it smaller.
Please HELP!!!
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