Hi,
I’m failing at editing very simple montage of underwater footage.
I don’t know if it’s me that don’t get the workflow or I’m hitting bugs or… please help me figure out how to do a simple:
squid are aliens
last night, I went diving and saw a few tiny squids, the biggest was probably 4 cm.
I’m trying to
- load 3 small videos
- cut to the “good part” (eg keep around 5 to 10 seconds of each)
- crop and zoom (it’s mostly black videos with the wee one in the middle)
- chain these and generate a vertical video (for the phone)
all the videos are 3840 × 2160 in H.265 @ 25hz
My key need here is to be able to choose which part of that giant video I need to keep, gopros are wide angles with most of the frame being uninteresting, I’d want to crop and keep only the good part of the 3840x2160
I’d like to get the final video at 1080 x 1920 (vertical framing) containing the good part of the 3840x2160. I don’t want to “real” zoom, just crop.
What I’m doing so far
- I created 3 tracks and put each clip on their own separate track
- cropped out the bits I don’t want and aligned them
- applied a crop rectangle effect (putting the size I want)
This is where it falls apart. What I would do with a single video is to click on “apply to source”, and accept to change the video format
that works fine and generates the cropped+zoomed video
however here, it seems to go completely banana and somewhat apply some kind of reframing/cropping/something to the other tracks and… I don’t know what’s going on, but I need to trash the project, none of the other tracks seems to be usable anymore
What am I missing? is this possible to crop and take only 1080x1920 rectangles from each of the clips and put them together into one 1080x1920 video? do I need to save each of the clips as separate videos and do a final montage?
I’d really like to use an opensource video editor, is this possible for what I want to do?
Advises more than welcome
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