Bug 487657

Summary: Feature request: easy way to crop a video
Product: [Applications] kdenlive Reporter: Tobias Bora <tobias.bora>
Component: Video Effects & TransitionsAssignee: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: fritzibaby
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 23.08.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Tobias Bora 2024-05-27 22:53:59 UTC 
SUMMARY

It is so far really hard to crop a video (i.e. trim some parts of an existing clip). So far, I need:
1. create a snapshot of a frame of the video, e.g. with vlc
2. open this in gimp, and use the selection tool to get the size of the region to crop
3. create a new profile in kdenlive with this size
4. import the clip
5. use the transform to position the clip correctly

This is even harder to do when the video to crop is a kdenlive project with many clips: it is indeed impossible to change the profile of an opened project, and recreating it from scratch can be really tedious.

It would be great instead to have a simple interface, like Krita's "crop" feature, where I can draw a rectangle to know what to crop easily, done in such a way that this would automatically update the project setting to the new size.