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Cropping a video to a different ratio?
I have a client that is giving me a screencapture recording of a power point slideshow with their voiceover. It’s coming from different peoples computer so each file has a different ratio. The actual slides are 4:3 however so I’m trying to get rid of the black bars on the side. Is there a way to crop a video and change the aspect ratio?
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[Grant Wilber] ” a screencapture recording of a power point slideshow with their voiceover”
Which kind of files are you getting from your client?
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Cropping may seem logical, but it is seldom if ever the solution. Instead, the answer lies in scaling up the video to a larger size that forces the letterboxed or pillarboxed portions of the frame off-screen beyond the edges of the frame. This will make the images softer or may possibly introduce other artifacts, but it’s a necessary evil if you have eliminate the black areas.
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