Enlarging a cropped video clip to fill the screen

Berzelius · Post by **Berzelius** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:42 pm

Say you have a storyline consisting of 3 mpg video clips. If you crop the centre clip and create a video file of the storyline then, if you play the file, you start off full screen, then get a jarring jump to the picture showing the black "cropping" border and then another jarring jump back to full screen. Is there any way of making the cropped clip appear full screen in the final video file?

I have VideoStudio 11 running under Windows XP/HE/SP2.

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:28 pm

The only way that I can find to do this, is using the overlay track.

With your clip in the overlay track, do not use the Overlay Filter. Instead select Apply Overlay Options. Then select Chroma-Key. Now below this are 3 options, Similarity, Width and Height.

Using the width and height, you can crop your video to the desired area. Once this is done, resize your video, by dragging the yellow corner handles in the preview window, continuing until you have the video filling the screen, and the black areas are well outside the Title Safe boarders. You may need to move the clip around in the preview window to be able to resize it fully.

Also be sure to set the Similarity to black and zero.

rguthrie · Post by **rguthrie** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:41 am

Berzelius,

Just use the Video Pan and Zoom filter on the middle clip on the Video Track and you'll get the same effect.

Ronald Guthrie

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:49 am

Just to clarify Ron Guthrie's suggestion, you use the pan and zoom instead of cropping...

Berzelius · Post by **Berzelius** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:57 pm

rguthrie wrote:Berzelius,

Just use the Video Pan and Zoom filter on the middle clip on the Video Track and you'll get the same effect.

Ronald Guthrie

Many thanks for the info - the filter does the job required. However, one unusual thing. In Help, under Pan & Zoom, it starts off by saying: Pan & Zoom is applied to still images and yet it seems to work with video clips.

rguthrie · Post by **rguthrie** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:00 pm

Berzelius wrote:yet it seems to work with video clips.

shhhhh, don't tell anyone that (it a secret!)

Glad I could be of help,
Ronald Guthrie

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:50 am

You are talking about 2 different things. Pan & Zoom is for stills, Video Pan & Zoom is for video.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:18 am

Erm... what pan and zoom?
My set ups only have "Video Pan and Zoom

When you apply the crop filter you can have it with or without borders.

With:

Without:

rguthrie · Post by **rguthrie** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:52 am

Steve,

I believe BlackLab is talking about Pan & Zoom used when you insert an Image to the Timeline:

Ronald Guthrie

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:55 am

Oh yes that pan and zoom - the one with the "logarithmic interpolation" thing that took me several hours to work out what it meant!

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:02 am

Yes, that is what I meant.