Crop the entire video

Dohn

Let's say that I have a video clip with a resolution of 1280x720. I want to crop it so that only the upper left half (resolution 640x360) will result in the exported movie. See photo.

So I applied the Crop effect and exported the movie, taking care to specify the size of the movie is 640x360. I was hoping that after the crop effect the final movie will contain only the cropped portion. Sadly, it didn't.

My question is: how can I export in a movie only the upper left half?

example

borate

Use ZOOM, not CROP.

Dohn

Wouldn't I end up with a 1280x720 video with a zoomed upper left corner? That is not what I want.

I want to cut the original 1280x720 video into a 640x360 video that has in it the upper left half of the original video.

Original video

End result video

borate

That's precisely what you will get after ZOOMing and exporting at the custom res of 640x360...

Right-click and SAVE this mp4 and look at its Properties...

640x360.mp4

Dohn

Excellent! Thank you.

I have to admit that Zoom is not intuitive when you want to crop a video, but what is important is that you solved my problem.

One last question. If I have several videos in a sequence, is it possible to apply the same effects on all videos AT ONCE?

borate

Several ways...

Right-click a clip and APPLY LAST VIDEO EFFECT.

Or select the clips and then program an effect. If it isn't automatically applied to all those you have selected, click the Replace Effect Chain button on the effects toolbar...

It's the icon with the green check mark.

Dohn

Brilliant! 👍