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Crop video – really crop not the black bars thing
Hey all,
I want to import video to Power point from PPro.the video is – a small thin drill rotating on black background.
Thing is when I export the video as PAL DV I have black area on the sides.
I want to create a video clip that will be cropped in the left\right sides – thus creating a thin video clip.
When I tried to crop it using Canopus Procoder 3 it didnt help because it did crop the edges but just created the same sized video but with black edges.
So I tried convert it using changing the resulution – instead of 768X576 I used 150X576.
but that just created a twisted narrow squeezed image.
I want that the video in the center of the picture will remain on the same size but the hole video clip will be narrower – excluding the edges…
I’m sure its possible – which program can do that?
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7 Replies
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Just create a custom project at the target size you need, import the video, and fit the frame, then export using the same resolution settings, voila.
Vince
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Or, just export using the Adobe Media Encoder and crop you video in the Source tab. Check the results in the Output tab.
Steven
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Thanks! it worked I resized the source and changes the target resolution(the export to adobe media encoder.
Now question is what is the best quality format that I can export using “Adobe Media Encoder”It should be imported to a Power point presentation
to run a up to 3 videos at once.
high quality but not CPU consuming – because it will be run on a laptop/which VIDEO format would you recommend?
CHEERS!
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You pretty much always take a chance with embedded video in PowerPoint, but WMV seems to be the most suited size wise vs requirement. Start at 512k and see how it looks.
Vince
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512K is Very low… I thought of Microsoft DV AVI or DV type 2
but is seems that the resolution is fixed in this format… and as mentioned before I need a cropped left\right edges.So maybe I will need to settle on WMV format. maybe if I keep the bit rate high – it will be enough.
I think I’ll go to 1500K at least. please tell -I’ll need to test the presentation on a slow machine to see if its to heavy to run 3 simultaneous clips.. again it has to be very high quality! to see the details of the drills.
Thanks again…
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512k may be enough since you are exporting to a very “narrow” resolution. If the machine is loaded with the same amount of crap as the ones we see showing up at our events, I would really stay away frm DV. But yes, WMV 1500k should still be fine in most cases.
Vince
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Yup – its going to be a really big presentation
a lot of text and images and a lot of objects animation
+ video clips that will appear and disappear.Its going to be heavy…
thats why I’m thinking about converting it to flash (once I’ll finish creating it)
because I’m really afraid that the shitty laptop my client will use will not take it well…Can you recommend of a good PPT2FLASH converter? that will deal with Power point 2007 and video integration.
I thought of creating the hole damn thing on Apple’s Keynote – and export it to Flash – but the flash export options pretty much don’t exist. + it doesn’t export video and the transitions. 🙁
So I found its possible to export to Quick time – that actually has many options
ans it could be exported in HIGH quality.
In it has manual progress option!
the only problem is that I cant skip a slide that is running a video clip. I have to wait for the clip to end – only than its possible to move to the next animation or slide.Thats why I went back to Power point.
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