Dumb newb Q #22943852: How to splice/crop an MPEG movie

[Sesshi]

What's the easiest way to splice and crop an MPEG movie on the Mac?

 

[mkrishnan]

When you say easiest, do you mean that you want something minimal that does only that? Is there a reason iMovie is not an option, or would that work for you?

 

[evil_santa]

Quicktime pro is good if you want to bung together a load of mpeg movies.

 

[Sesshi]

I'm still scratching my head in iMovie how I crop (as in effectively zoom into a portion) a footage. If iMovie can do it, great.

 

[mkrishnan]

Okay, gotcha, I wasn't sure if you meant cropping in time or space.

You might need plugins like these:

http://www.stupendous-software.com/Stupendous/CropsZooms/Pages/index.html

I think you may actually want the Zoom plugin and not the crop one, though.

Otherwise ffmpegx might be able to help you. It's free, although it will not be as easy.

 

[live4ever]

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