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  • Cropping and Loss of resolution

    Posted by Actxiom101 on November 24, 2006 at 4:03 am

    It stands to reason that cropping a video clip to improve composition, remove edge clutter, and zoom in on a subject would also result in a loss of resolution. That is the way it appears. Are there any image adjustments techniques that would improve the picture. I suppose brightness and contrast or color values, color curves, or filters such as in photoshop that improve sharpness would help? Any comments. Anyone?

    Mechelle Stewart replied 18 years ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Alex Bennett

    November 28, 2006 at 9:14 am

    It would be great if such software existed but I doubt it. Video clips are at a relatively low resolution and any zoom above 25% will appear very fuzzy. Normally 10% is about the most to be unnoticeable. You can, of course, zoom in a lot more on photos and even make them appear to move with Pan and Crop or motion tracking. I only answered this because no-one else appeared to do so!

  • Actxiom101

    November 29, 2006 at 12:13 am

    Thanks for the reply. I would hope there are more that a handful of readers of this forum. Perhaps Vegas is so easy that no one feels the need to visit. I was talking to another Vegas user today who thought Vegas was every bit as good as Final Cut Pro.

  • Edward Troxel

    November 29, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    There are two forums on the Cow for Vegas. This one, and the other one:
    https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=24

    This one is really designed for more beginner questions but any question can be asked on either one.

    Edward Troxel
    JETDV Scripts

  • Mechelle Stewart

    September 7, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    I’ve wondered about this, too. I was trying to figure out how to zoom in without losing quality. I had pretty much given up on the idea, but I’ve seen videos on YouTube where the pan was obviously more than 10 or 20% and the quality of the video remained the same. So there has to be a way to do it.

    I just haven’t figured it out, yet.

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