Resizing Captured Video

[CurleyJ]

Oh yes, I'm new! I'm hoping you can help out. I've captured footage at 720x480, but I need it at 320x320 to import into Flash. Any idea how to do that? Thanks!

 

[vickero007]

Go to Project>>Project Settings menu
Make sure "Video for Windows" is your mode in General
Drag the captured video to the timeline.
Do file>>Export>>Movie
Click the settings button.
Change resolution to 320x320
Adjust any other settings (compression)
Click OK and then name it and click Save.

-Volkoff007

 

[CurleyJ]

Super thanks for the help! The only problem is now the clip is squished. I need to crop the current clip to 320x320. Is that possible? Thanks!

 

[WizyWyg]

Its going to be squished since 320x320 is a square and you're coming from a "rectangle" resolution.

 

[vickero007]

There may be an option to keep frame aspect ratio. I'll have to check mine at home.

-Volkoff007

 

[CurleyJ]

Thanks I wasn't sure if there was some sort of "crop"' function in Premiere, where I could crop the film much like you can crop an animated gif. If there is, I'd like to use that feature.

 

[WizyWyg]

Cropping is to "take" out any extra stuff in a scene that you dont need (ie 10 pixels from the top/right/bottom/left etc)

You want to resize or to crop?

 

[CurleyJ]

Yep, I mean crop. Sorry, I'm used to photoshop/illustrator/indesign/flash, etc... I'm really new to premiere.

 

[WizyWyg]

Crop is the same in those programs as well.

 

[CurleyJ]

Roger that WizyWyg, that's why if I crop the footage, it won't be scaled incorrectly. However, if I resize the footage, it will be. That's why I was wondering if there is a crop tool in Premiere that I can use to cut the footage size down. I don't mind that I'll be cutting out some of the footage.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

If I needed to do this, I'd consider using Image Pan. When shifting the rectangle, if you hold the ALT key down, it preserves the ratio.

This is as close to "crop" in Premiere that I know of.

Cheers,

Edward

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