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When you say "crop" I hear: reduce the viewing area of the video, or reduce the image size (in pixels).</div>
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If you want to reduce the length of the video, I would call that "Trim" or at least that's what it's called in Quicktime Player on my Mac. The free Quicktime cannot crop, but it can trim. I'm sure you can find it for Winderz. </div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 20, 2022 10:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> eric@megageek.com <eric@megageek.com><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Shop-talk] Video editing help</font>
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<div class="PlainText">I use the built-in editor in Windows to clip my dashcam videos. It<br>
does work with MP4. It shows a "timeline" of the movie file or clip,<br>
and you can select points to trim the start and end points.<br>
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Windows Live Movie Maker - you may need to install it as an "app".<br>
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 7:25 AM <eric@megageek.com> wrote:<br>
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> I know this isn't 100% shop talk related, but stick with me.<br>
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> I am an instructor in the Army and I often have to use clips from movies and other video training aids.<br>
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> Problem is, many of these 2 or 3 minute clips are embedding in 1 or 2 hour videos. Meaning I spend lots of time finding the actually beginning of a clip and such.<br>
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> Also, now that we are doing more virtual training, I would love to be able to send out the videos so students can watch them locally, but I can't send 1 gig files.<br>
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> I am looking for a video editor that can 'crop' videos files. These are often compressed files (.mp4) so I understand that I may have to have some 'extra' footage that the beginning, and that is fine.<br>
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> But what I see is often I have to wait for the entire play length to save the cropped file.<br>
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> Is there an editor out that that can quickly and easily crop video files? Bonus if it's free.<br>
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> Thanks!<br>
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