I want to crop (as in, take a subset of each frame, like when you crop a photo) a video in Windows Live Movie maker. Is there a way to do this, and failing that is there another free tool i can use to do that?
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Anyone? Anyone at all? – RCIX Apr 04 '10 at 08:36
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I'd use Avidemux. Free, and portable version avaliable for Windows. Download page , Crop howto . (Even supports multi-threading which was the original reason why I started to use it. Awesome software. :))
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After trying both this and VirtualDub, i prefer the other. Thanks for the suggestion though! – RCIX Apr 09 '10 at 08:10
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Avidemux supports .mp4 so definitely this one is better for me. It supports x265 HEVC too ! – Pirate X May 26 '18 at 17:59
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I've used Windows Live Movie Maker for a while, and am 99.99% sure that it doesn't provide the ability to crop frames in a movie.
VirtualDub (here) I've heard is a decent free video editor that can be used to crop videos (e.g. to remove those black bars and to rotate frames).
To crop a video in VirtualDub, open the video and then from the menu, select Video > Filters... > Add... > "null transform" > OK. Now select the "null transform" in the filter list and click "Cropping...". From this dialog you can drag the borders inwards to crop the video.
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8Windows Movie Maker unable to crop? that is pretty sad.. talk about a basic feature that was'nt implemented. – Etienne Dupuis Nov 12 '12 at 19:44
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1I thought .mp4 was a common extension, but VirtualDub does not open it :( – removed Jan 27 '16 at 16:38