Sunday, 30 September 2018

mac - How to crop Screen Recordings under Snow Leopard?


Quicktime Player for Snow Leopard now allows you record the screen. Awesome!
Once you have a movie it will let you trim screen recordings for length.
Is there a way to crop the movie's dimensions, either in QT or using some built-in or free software?


Update: How to crop to an arbitrary size and aspect ratio? iMovie only seems to let you crop to the aspect ratio of the containing project.


Result: Both good answers but since I have QuickTime Player 7 and Photoshop, that's the workflow I choose as the answer. NOTE: If you have Photoshop Extended, you can import a movie, use the crop tool, and Export the cropped movie. Not free or built-in, but convenient.


To summarize the instructions from the video link ricbax posted:



  1. Open movie in QuickTime Player 7

  2. Copy a frame and Paste it into a new document in Photoshop

  3. Draw a rectangular selection around the area to keep and fill with black

  4. Invert the selection and fill with white

  5. Save as .GIF, with 2 colors

  6. Back in QuickTime Player 7, open Movie Properties window

  7. Select the Video Track

  8. Select the Visual Settings Tab

  9. Drag and Drop the 2-color .GIF file onto the Mask drop area (or use choose file button)

  10. Export the (now cropped) movie
    DONE



Answer



Checkout the video here:


How to Use Quicktime to Crop Video with Letterbox/Pillarbox


If you upgraded SL from Leopard you can do this via Quicktime 7 otherwise they have cut out all the awesome editing features from QT10. :(


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