Help with a 1920 x 520 video size

iNdepthphoto wrote on 5/10/2016, 4:24 AM

Hi,
I'm after a little help on rendering a video to a specific size. (I'm doing 4)
I'm shooting a 1920x1080 HD but I need to take a crop portion of this video and render it as 1920x520 without distorting the video. Is this done with a mask to blank the section of video not required or is there a way just to render that portion of the image.
Just to add these 4 videos might not be central portions and could be 2/3rds down, bottom or top section.
Thank you.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 5/10/2016, 7:02 AM

Find a tutorial for using Event Pan/Crop and experiment.
Its tricky at first.

Former user wrote on 5/10/2016, 7:27 AM

Sounds like John had the answer to OP question (a little farther down in the posts).

Former user wrote on 5/10/2016, 8:36 AM

By cropping with a mask, you will still have a 1920 x 1080 video with black on top and bottom. Is that what you want or do you need a video that is 1920 x 520 (no extra black borders)?

iNdepthphoto wrote on 5/10/2016, 8:48 AM

Thank you, I'll give it go.

iNdepthphoto wrote on 5/10/2016, 8:49 AM

Video 1920 x 520 no black border

Former user wrote on 5/10/2016, 9:45 AM

Then you need to make your project that size and then scale your picture to fit.

musicvid10 wrote on 5/10/2016, 11:14 AM

Even if you encode 1920x520 without a letterbox border, it will always play with a border, because no player or device uses a 3.69 display aspect ratio. No way around that,

Former user wrote on 5/10/2016, 11:22 AM

Sounds like John had the answer to OP question (a little farther down in the posts).

john_dennis wrote on 5/10/2016, 11:34 AM

I stopped asking "Why" a long time ago. Errrrr, I tried to stop asking "Why". If you want to see it done.

iNdepthphoto wrote on 5/11/2016, 1:39 PM

Thanks John,
Apologies I missed your reply, but this (as one of the first posts+) is exactly as I require to do.

And thanks to everyone for their help too :)

+removed I guess due to the video - but Thanks I printed it before you removed it :)

john_dennis wrote on 5/11/2016, 2:05 PM

You're quite welcome.

Chienworks wrote on 5/11/2016, 4:44 PM

It really is pretty easy to do. I think what hangs most people up is they don't realize that the project and rendering templates can be changed (most of the time). I remember going back and forth with one person a while back where i kept saying "see where it says 240? type in the 180 that you want" and he kept saying "but it says 240 there", and i'd say "yep, right. just click on it, erase what's there and type in 180" and he'd say again "but it already says 240". This went on about 8 times before he finally got it.