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Does Quicktime Pro have a crop filter?
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Agreed. Most of the $30 features are hackable. Recording videos is cool, but I don't recall if that's Pro or standard.motulist said:
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With QuickTime Pro, you can assign a mask from Window -> Movie Properties -> click video track -> Visual Settings tab -> choose mask
Select an image of the same dimension as the movie, with a black box in the area you want to retain, the white borders will be cropped away. You can see a demonstration in this youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKS9wgmZ9Mw
With QuickTime Pro, you can assign a mask from Window -> Movie Properties -> click video track -> Visual Settings tab -> choose mask
Select an image of the same dimension as the movie, with a black box in the area you want to retain, the white borders will be cropped away. You can see a demonstration in this youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKS9wgmZ9Mw
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I should add that I found an easier method for special cases (assuming only QT Pro, dedicated tools like previous post are probably more streamlined still).
During Export, if you use QuickTime Movie for the format, and click options, then click "Size", choose the target dimension, and then check "Preserve Aspect Ratio", and then "Crop" from the drop down, it will scale the movie to fill the image and then crop off what doesn't fit. (So for instance, choosing 640x480 on a 1280x720 image means it scales down to 480 high and then chops off the pillars to "pan-scan" HD 720P down to 4:3 SD ).
FYI, there's a similar size/aspect/crop sequence available if exporting to "raw" MPEG-4 instead of QuickTime Movie.
Of course, this only selects the middle of the image, the masking method lets you grab something off-center.
I should add that I found an easier method for special cases (assuming only QT Pro, dedicated tools like previous post are probably more streamlined still).
During Export, if you use QuickTime Movie for the format, and click options, then click "Size", choose the target dimension, and then check "Preserve Aspect Ratio", and then "Crop" from the drop down, it will scale the movie to fill the image and then crop off what doesn't fit. (So for instance, choosing 640x480 on a 1280x720 image means it scales down to 480 high and then chops off the pillars to "pan-scan" HD 720P down to 4:3 SD ).
FYI, there's a similar size/aspect/crop sequence available if exporting to "raw" MPEG-4 instead of QuickTime Movie.
Of course, this only selects the middle of the image, the masking method lets you grab something off-center.
You need a mask
Watch this video on youTube and you can do it in QT Pro.
How to make a Mask for cropping in QT Pro
I used the above mentioned method and it works, but you have to know what dimensions you are using before you do the export.
Watch this video on youTube and you can do it in QT Pro.
How to make a Mask for cropping in QT Pro
I used the above mentioned method and it works, but you have to know what dimensions you are using before you do the export.