Hello Everyone,
I am in videostudio and I move the video in the timeline. I then select the video and then I select the crop tool which creates a yellow dotted line around the video with the line being bold at the corners. I want to crop it and maintain the same aspect ratio so I select the corners and decrease the size. However, the aspect ratio is not locked at all. What am I doing wrong?
How to maintain aspect ratio when cropping.
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Re: How to maintain aspect ratio when cropping.
Right click on the video on the Preview Screen and select "Keep Aspect Ratio" then grab a corner and drag to required size (drag with double arrow symbol not 4 arrow symbol)
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Re: How to maintain aspect ratio when cropping.
Michael
welcome to the forums
You mention Cropping are you using the Distort Tool options immediately below the preview screen.
I had assumed that dragging the corners would retain the Aspect ratio, but as you have found It does not.
Are you wishing to Crop the frame by removing some details or re-size the video to show as a smaller frame.
Once cropped are you displaying the frame in full screen or as a smaller video sat on top of another (Picture in Picture effect)
Can you try using the FX Cropping tool, this for me does retain the aspect by retaining the same % for width & height, although fills the crop with colour or fit to screen, may not be what you want?
If you are wishing to resize and fit to screen then using Customise Motion may be the way to go.
Worth looking at this tool, you may find it quite useful.
Right click the clip for Motion - Customise motion.
welcome to the forums
You mention Cropping are you using the Distort Tool options immediately below the preview screen.
I had assumed that dragging the corners would retain the Aspect ratio, but as you have found It does not.
Are you wishing to Crop the frame by removing some details or re-size the video to show as a smaller frame.
Once cropped are you displaying the frame in full screen or as a smaller video sat on top of another (Picture in Picture effect)
Can you try using the FX Cropping tool, this for me does retain the aspect by retaining the same % for width & height, although fills the crop with colour or fit to screen, may not be what you want?
If you are wishing to resize and fit to screen then using Customise Motion may be the way to go.
Worth looking at this tool, you may find it quite useful.
Right click the clip for Motion - Customise motion.