How to stop Crop area from moving? (VS 11)

limapuloh · Post by **limapuloh** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:23 pm

I've applied the Cropping filter to my video, set the height to 100% and the width 85%, moved the crop area to the left so that the right hand side is what is cropped, and have checked the 'stationary' check box.

But when I play the video, the crop area slowly enlarges! The 85% gets smaller as the video goes on.

Why is this?

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:33 pm

Welcome to the forums,

There are always at the minimum 2 keyframes that you need to set. The start and ending. Right-click on the first (start) keyframe, select copy, go to the last keyframe (end) right-click and paste.

***The red diamond points on the Customize time-line are the keyframes. See page# 66 of the VS11 manual. ***

limapuloh · Post by **limapuloh** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:56 pm

thanks Ron for your prompt and helpful reply!

I did not understood that the copying/pasting of this was needed in the Customize dialog of the filter.

Thanks again

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:11 pm

I forgot to add, that to use the copy/paste only if you want the cropped size to be the same on the first and last, or subsequent key frames. This is a fast, short-cut to manually setting the attributes of more than one key frame, when you're wanting them the same.