Video cropping

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How to cut a video easily ?

Cut, crop or change the dimensions of a video: after filmed, you can make many changes to your content to improve it !

This can be useful to delete an error without redoing your video, to refine it or to modify it in order to adapt it to social networks.

In this article, we give you some advice and present you several tools to cut a video, easily.

Cut a video: for what reasons ?

In a few words, cutting a video means cutting its edges to crop it, so that it only keeps part of it.

This can be useful for:

• Give another intention to your video or change your focus – for example, zoom in on a subject,
• Adapt a video to a specific framework,
• Cut an annoying error or part that you do not want to reveal,
• Delete black bands, if you have just changed the dimensions of your video for example,
• Isolate one element of the video for another project,
• Create an original video with different crop clips.

This handling can be done on your computer, windows or mac, or even on your smartphone. We explain, below, how to reframe a video easily.

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How to crop a video easily on Windows or Mac

How to cut a video with Camtasia

You can cut a video easily thanks to the Camtasia software and its intuitive interface, in order to cut unnecessary edges and keep only part of the visual.

Open Camtasia, then:

• Add your video to the fall and drag it into the assembly plan-or use the screen recording you have just made,

• Click on the “Rogner” icon, just above the visualization window, to activate this mode,

• Slide the blue handles to remove the outer areas from your video,

• Once the selection is finished, click on the cursor icon to find the edition mode.

You can then move your new clip in the window, if necessary. It is also possible to return to the original video using the “Rogner” mode a second time.

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How to crop a video on VLC

To cut a video thanks to VLC, follow the steps below:

• Open your video with VLC Media Player,
• In the “Tools” menu, select “Effects and filters”,
• Go to the “Video Effects” tab, then “Rogging”,
• Increase the values ​​on the left and right, below and at the top, to cut your video.

Once this manipulation has been carried out, click on “Close”, then return to the “Tools” menu:

• Click on “Preferences”,
• Under “Show settings”, click on “All”,
• Go to “Video”> “Filters”> “Rogen/add”,
• Personalize the cropping, as before,
• Click on “Save”.

You will then have to convert the file to “media”> “Convert / save”:

• Add your video,
• Click on “Convert” in the drop -down menu,
• Choose a profile and click on the wheel key,
• Go to the “Video Codec” tab, then “Filters”,
• Check the corresponding filter in the list,
• Save at the desired location and start the conversion.

Note that you will have to reset preferences for your next videos.

Our top 3 mounting software to cut a video

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is very complete assembly software, available on Windows. It allows, among other things, to cut a video easily thanks to the crop effect.

His advantages :

• Cut a video with precision and speed,
• Allows you to create a video with several crop clips,
• Automatic crop effect to follow a moving subject, very practical for social networks,
• Many supported video formats.

Its drawbacks:

• Its price, even if there is a free trial version.

His price :

• 23.99 euros per month.

Note that you can also equip yourself with Premiere Rush software, less expensive and very practical, to cut a video.

iMovie

Imovie, default application on Mac, is ideal for all your video projects. You can for example delete a green background or change the dimensions of a video in a few clicks.

His advantages :

• Very easy to use software, free and at hand,
• Rogen a video quickly by dragging the handles to the visualization window,
• Possibility of adding music, titles or transitions, etc.

Its drawbacks:

• Frequent insufficient disk space problem.

His price :

Camtasia

Camtasia is all-in-one software dedicated to screen recording and video editing. It allows you to cut a video with ease, as we have seen above.

His advantages :

• Intuitive interface,
• Ideal software for tutorials or online courses,
• Many practical features (video and audio effects),
• Available on Windows and Mac,
• French version and technical support.

Its drawbacks:

• Its price, even if a free trial version is offered.

His price :

Note that there are also tools to cut an online video, such as Clideo, Fastreel or Crop-Video.com. These are very practical, but may have drawbacks-watermark on the video (without subscription for example) or limits in the size of the file.

Change the dimensions of a video on smartphone

If you are wondering how to cut a video on smartphone, to share it directly on social networks, know that it is a very simple manipulation !

With the integrated iPhone tool

If you have an iPhone, go to the “Photos” app and click on your video.

• Click on “Modify” at the top right,
• Choose the cropping tool, icon at the bottom of the screen,
• Slide the handles,
• If the result suits you, click on “OK”.

You can, if necessary, come back to the original video.

With an application

There are also free applications that allow you to cut a video on a smartphone.

Here are two very practical, available on iPhone and on Android:

• Goopro Quik : a useful application for video editing on smartphone, whether to crop, cut, add music or effects,

• Inshot : a very complete tool to work on your videos (crop, crop, cut, rotate, etc.) before sending them to his friends or publishing them on social networks.

You therefore have many solutions to cut a video, whether on a computer or on a smartphone, with an integrated tool, software or application !

And if it was easy to cut a video ?

Download the free camtasia trial version to create your video: from screen recording to editing, everything becomes easy !

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How to crop a video ?

1. Click on the button “Choose a video” To download your video
2. Adjust the crop area at the top of your video.
3. Then click on the button “Rogen the video” To start cropping.

Easy to use

Simply download a video and draw the crop rectangle. You can even crop according to a specific appearance report.

Crop any video

This tool can reframe more than 40 video formats, including MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, etc.

Free and secure

This tool is free and works on any web browser. In addition, the files are protected by an SSL 256 -bit encryption and automatically deleted after a few hours. The security and confidentiality of your files are guaranteed.

Best video cropping

In addition to being intuitive and high quality, this tool is also very functional. Here are some of the available settings:

• Video preview – Use the preview to cut the video without losing significant content.
• Image format – Reappoint the video perfectly to adapt it to any social media device or platform.
• Width and height – Specify the exact dimensions of pixel cropping.

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