Help to cropping a Video's Dimensions without Squishing the Image?

[tizy77]

So I have had VLC media player longer than I can remember. Recently I updated my computer so I re-installed VLC (Fresh install, deleted saved cache). A function I use a lot is the manual cropping feature, Tool -> Effects/Filters -> Video Effects ->Crop (shows top/bottom, left/right with pixels. The problem arises whenever I crop the video dimensions, it no longer seems to cut out those pixels, just squish the image into the remaining space.

Example, I have a video of just a circle drawn on a piece of paper. If I crop 500 pixels from the left, it would only show half of the circle on the screen, the right half. That is what I want.
BUT NOW (the problem), if I crop 500 pixels from the left, it will show the FULL CIRCLE, just squished within a dimension that has been reduced by 500 pixels on the left side.

I have spent literally hours going through advanced settings trying to prevent this. I changed it from being fullscreen, to fit the window, to Output drivers, to going into crop ratio's and adding it to be 4:3, 16:9, etc.

It appears when I crop, VLC is trying to keep the video/image file the same dimension while adding the crop function. I did notice if I cropped a small amount, 1-10 pixels, it would crop the image without squishing it, but whenever I went over 100 pixels, the image would not crop and instead resize and squish the image. Please and thank you for all help

[mederi]

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18348

[John_Richmond]

I have successfully cropped video files... But I have a different problem.
I always go to tolls/Effects and Filters/Video Effects/Crop first to determine how much I want to crop.
Then I manually set them back to zero and close then close the file.
And then I go to Tools/Preferences/All/Video/Filters/Croppadd type in the amount of pixels (usually top and bottom). Then Filters/Video Scaling Filter (at the bottom)/Save.

Then I open the video file... Media/Convert Save/Add ...once open... Convert/Edit Selected Profile (the first Icon to the right)/Video Codec/Filters/Video Cropping Filter/Save/Browse and name/Save/Start...
The result I am getting is that my video of some eight minutes plus had been squeezed into a little over three minutes.

I have tried everything I can think of but it still comes out three minutes long.

Any ideas?