Cropping Video Screen?

[Faivon]

Just wondering how do I crop video screen to a desired size?
For example, Harry Potter movie ... I just want an animated piece of Harry's head and just his head! Not his entire movie or his body! I need that to export the animation into a gif file...
You know, just like Photoshop Crop Image Tool?

[vampire101]

Just wondering how do I crop video screen to a desired size?
For example, Harry Potter movie ... I just want an animated piece of Harry's head and just his head! Not his entire movie or his body! I need that to export the animation into a gif file...
You know, just like Photoshop Crop Image Tool?

First, in VideoStudio, you could only crop the video if its in the overlay track, and not the main video clip. Second, cropping a video clip in VideoStudio means removing its unwanted borders. You can¡¦t select which part of the video clip you wish to discard but you could increase the border size of the video clip to focus more on the center of the video clip. Third, i don't think that you could save this particular cropped video clip as an individual file. it will be included in the whole video. In your given example, you could get Harry¡¦s head only if his head is in the middle of the screen and stays there for the duration of the clip.

Quoted from VS User Manual:
¡§Crop: Removes unwanted borders from your overlay clip. Set how much of the clip¡¦s height and width you want cropped¡¨

but i think you could to what you want to do with Ulead MediaStudio Pro. i'm not quite sure since i don't have it, but i've read it in the MSP user manual

Quoted from MSP User Manual:
"Cropping displays a dialog box where you can modify the frame dimensions of the video.

Cropping is a useful method for controlling the frame size of a video without having to resize the actual frames. This is important as resizing frames resamples the original video, resulting in distortion and loss of quality. The downside though is that you need to remove data which may or may not be important. Cropping is also good for removing unwanted noise that may occur around the edges of a video due to bad capturing or copying.

Cropping dialog box:
¡E Cropping specifies the area of the video that you want to crop (remove) from the resulting video file. You can enter values in the spin boxes provided in the Cropping group box or drag on the control points on the preview image.
¡E Keep original size resamples the cropped video so that it maintains the specified frame size (this does produce degradation however, depending on the amount of resampling involved). After resizing the control box you can move its position by dragging it. (Use the slider beneath the window to preview how your changes affect the video.)"

[Clevo]

You want to make an animated gif...from a movie. Is that correct?

[asjr_4584]

It seems UVS doesn¡¦t have an option to export video clip to GIF type though you can use other 3rd party softwares in converting your cropped portion of your video clip to GIF type.

After inserting a video clip in the Storyboard/Timeline view panel of UVS, choose your desired scene and use the Video filter >> Cropping Filter in any portion on the screen. Click the Customize Filter to adjust the height and width of the portion on the clip that you want to crop. Use the Preview panel to resize the clip¡¦s aspect ratio and then try to fit the cropped portion to screen. Export your cropped video clip in any type then use a 3rd party software to convert it to GIF type.

[Black Lab]

First, in VideoStudio, you could only crop the video if its in the overlay track, and not the main video clip.

Not necessarily. You can use the Cropping filter in the main video track.

[Faivon]

It seems UVS doesn¡¦t have an option to export video clip to GIF type though you can use other 3rd party softwares in converting your cropped portion of your video clip to GIF type.

After inserting a video clip in the Storyboard/Timeline view panel of UVS, choose your desired scene and use the Video filter >> Cropping Filter in any portion on the screen. Click the Customize Filter to adjust the height and width of the portion on the clip that you want to crop. Use the Preview panel to resize the clip¡¦s aspect ratio and then try to fit the cropped portion to screen. Export your cropped video clip in any type then use a 3rd party software to convert it to GIF type.

Thanks a lot! This is what I exactly want!
Thank you all!