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I want to crop (as in, take a subset of each frame, like when you crop a photo) a video in Windows Live Movie maker. Is there a way to do this, and failing that is there another free tool i can use to do that?
RCIX
Posted 2010-04-04T00:31:33.727
Reputation: 5 415
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I've used Windows Live Movie Maker for a while, and am 99.99% sure that it doesn't provide the ability to crop frames in a movie.
VirtualDub (here) I've heard is a decent free video editor that can be used to crop videos (e.g. to remove those black bars and to rotate frames).
To crop a video in VirtualDub, open the video and then from the menu, select Video > Filters... > Add... > "null transform" > OK. Now select the "null transform" in the filter list and click "Cropping...". From this dialog you can drag the borders inwards to crop the video.
Vervious
Posted 2010-04-04T00:31:33.727
Reputation: 4 654
1I thought .mp4 was a common extension, but VirtualDub does not open it :( – removed – 2016-01-27T16:38:47.953
8Windows Movie Maker unable to crop? that is pretty sad.. talk about a basic feature that was'nt implemented. – Etienne Dupuis – 2012-11-12T19:44:38.753
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I'd use Avidemux. Free, and portable version avaliable for Windows. Download page , Crop howto . (Even supports multi-threading which was the original reason why I started to use it. Awesome software. :))
Apache
Posted 2010-04-04T00:31:33.727
Reputation: 14 755
I'll check it out soon :) – RCIX – 2010-04-06T22:51:03.290
After trying both this and VirtualDub, i prefer the other. Thanks for the suggestion though! – RCIX – 2010-04-09T08:10:32.603
Avidemux supports .mp4 so definitely this one is better for me. It supports x265 HEVC too ! – Pirate X – 2018-05-26T17:59:00.323
Anyone? Anyone at all? – RCIX – 2010-04-04T08:36:24.410