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  • First stabilized, and now I want to crop

    Posted by David Notowitz on October 6, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    I’m an experienced and very long time FCP guy (since version FCP 1.2.1!!!!) trying to get up and running in Premiere ASAP…

    In Premiere, I zoomed into a shot 300%, and then to try and help with the bumpy handheld I used motion tab and adjusted position throughout the shot, then I added Warp Stabilizer, keeping the image in the upper left corner of the screen. Now I would like to crop the resulting image so that I can add another layer of video underneath. What’s the best way to do this?
    Thanks,
    David

    NCAVF, The National Center for Audio and Video Forensics
    https://www.NCAVF.com

    David Notowitz replied 12 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Paul Neumann

    October 6, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    Start over. Warp stabilize and then zoom.

  • David Notowitz

    October 6, 2013 at 11:58 pm

    Thank you for your response.
    Let’s leave off the Warp Stabilizer for now.

    What is most important in this situation is — I zoomed 300%, and then I used the Motion tab and Position keyframes to manually stabilize the image into the top left corner of the screen. After I’ve done all that, I want to crop that resulting stabilized image to 1/4 of the screen.

    What’s the best way to do this?
    All the best,
    David

    NCAVF, The National Center for Audio and Video Forensics
    https://www.NCAVF.com

  • Paul Neumann

    October 7, 2013 at 12:17 am

    Right click on the clip and Nest it. Apply the crop to this new nested clip.

    For the record I would stablilize the shot with Warp Stablilizer with Scale and Crop and Additional Scale set to 300% before anything else.

  • Ivan Myles

    October 7, 2013 at 12:18 am

    The crop effect would be the most common approach. You could also insert the clip into a sequence that is sized to the desired dimensions, and then embed the sequence into your main timeline.

  • David Notowitz

    October 9, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    Thank you all for your suggestions. It was extremely helpful and very appreciated.
    All the best,
    David

    NCAVF, The National Center for Audio and Video Forensics
    https://www.NCAVF.com

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