Bug 487657 - Feature request: easy way to crop a video
Summary: Feature request: easy way to crop a video
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kdenlive
Classification: Applications
Component: Video Effects & Transitions (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 23.08.5
Platform: Other All
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
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Reported: 2024-05-27 22:53 UTC by Tobias Bora
Modified: 2024-05-28 15:57 UTC (History)
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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.