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Don't Know How to Crop a Video Using VLC? See Easier Guide Here
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As one of the most popular media players all over the world, VLC Media Player allows users to play many mainstream video and audio formats on it. Another reason that VLC is sought after by most of the consumers is it offers some auxiliary functions for editing videos, such as cropping and merging videos. The next part is an instruction of how to crop video in VLC.
To Crop Video in VLC, 8 Steps Are Needed
VLC has hidden video cropping feature which can help you do simple cropping. Keep reading the following text to know a detailed exposition of cropping video with VLC:
Step 1. Launch the VLC Media Player. Then, click the "Media" button where you can find the "Open file" tab. Click it to open the source video file.
Step 2. Click the "three arrows icon" to open the "Adjustments and Effects window" under which you'll click the "Video Effects" tab to select the "crop" button.
Step 3. Adjust the pixel values to your desired status before you close the "Adjustments and Effects window" to proceed the cropping with VLC.
Step 4. Click the "Tools" button and choose the "preferences" tab under it. Scroll down all the options in the bottom left corner and click "the arrow" near the Filters option where you can select the sub-option "Croppadd". Fill in the pixel values in step 2.
Step 5. Click Filters option and tick the "Video cropping filter" option. Then, save this process to finish.
Step 6. Click the "Media" button and then click the "Convert/Save" button. Select your targeted video and then crop it. Click "Convert/Save" again.
Step 7. Next to the pull-down list of "the Profile" where you will find the "Edit selected profile" button, click it to enter the "Video Codec" tab. Click the "Video Codec" tab to locate the "filter label" under which you must select the "Video Cropping Filter". Name your cropped video and save it.
Step 8. Remember the output address that you’ve set to save your video file. Start the conversion and afterwards, go to the output folder to find the output video.
VLC Cannot Open and Crop Large Videos and Some Other Files
If you only want to do small cuts, VLC as a video cropping tool will work just right. However, if you are cropping any large videos with VLC, you'll face some difficulties. Besides, VLC can't replace all the professional video editing software, for VLC simply won't open some videos. For example, if you attempt to open a YouTube URL in VLC, you probably will only see an error box popping up which goes like "VLC is unable to open the MRL". Then, you may scratch your head to fix this but nothing works at all. This is why you'll need another solution.
VLC Is Not Good at Cropping 4K/Large Videos or Some Special Files
Another Solution: Three Simple Steps to Crop ANY Videos with VideoProc
VideoProc, is an ideal cropping option which offers you plentiful editing options to fulfill all kinds of your clipping need. It takes in any sort of video files, be it a 4K-UHD footage, a HEVC encoded file, a high frame rate and large file or something at a full GPU-accelerated speed. VideoProc is also simple-to-operate, which allows you to get your video-cropping perfectly done within a few simple steps.
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Step 1. Open the software, click the "Crop" button to launch VideoProc’s cropping function.
Step 2. Tick the "Enable Crop" option until you see the dot lines encircling the four sides of the original video. Then, drag the dotted line to crop the video by removing any unwanted areas of the video. Click the "Preset" tab where you can get a list of options, such as "Crop LetterBox", "Keep Current", "Keep Origin", "16:9" etc., to freely crop the video. BTW, you can also crop your video to any of your desired video sizes by setting a specific position.
Step 3. Click "Done" to save the whole cropping process.
Final Words
Even though VLC Media Player can play most of the mainstream videos and also supports basic video editing, it is still not a specific tool that fulfils all demands of editing. In comparison with the latter solution, VideoProc (a video processing tool), VLC is not so handy to operate. Any careless misoperation will result in a monotonous and complicated reoperation. So, if you need a more direct, error-free and batch way to crop, cut, merge, adjust, convert and/or compress your video files, VideoProc is more appropriate. Just download the exe or dmg file on your Windows or Mac to give it a shot!
