Chaging Output Size

Kevin Mc wrote on 6/6/2007, 11:32 AM
I'm creating a short video in VMSP-7 that will be converted to a flash presentation for a web site. I want the video to play across the entire top banner of the site - meaning it will be very wide but not very high. I will be shooting the video in 16:9 and in such a way so that the subject matter is centered vertically - allowing me to crop out the top and bottom to make this wide but not tall.

Is there anyway in VMS to:

1. Crop the video so that only the center portion (vertically speaking) from far-left to far-right is exported?
2. Change the export settings to allow me to customize the output size?

Example of what I need (hopefully these characters will align when I post this)... If the characters below represent a full screen 16:9 video - I only want to use the portion denoted with the plus-signs (+) and I only want the final export to be the size of the area with +'s - discarding all other video top and bottom.

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Possible?

Thanks,
--Kevin

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 6/6/2007, 3:41 PM
Yep, easily done. File / Properties ... set your project properties to whatever size you want the output to be. This step isn't necessary, but it makes your work a lot easier.

Place the video on the timeline, go to Pan/Crop, right-mouse-button click in the cropping frame, choose "match output aspect". Now the cropping is done for you, though you can still adjust it up or down as necessary.

When rendering, do an advanced render and select custom. Choose whatever format/template is closest to your desired output. Then in the video panel check the 'keep original size" option.

Render.
Kevin Mc wrote on 6/6/2007, 5:18 PM
OUTSTANDING! Thank you very much for this help. I'll give this a try when I have some of the initial video shot for this project.

Again ... THANKS!
--Kevin