Help to cropping a Video's Dimensions without Squishing the Image?
Posted: 25 May 2017 05:36
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
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