How to crop a video?

[kramer65]

Hello,


I've got a little video and I want to crop it so that a part of it falls away. I installed and tried Openshot, Kino, Pitivi and Kdenlive, but I can't seem to find a way to crop my video.

Isn't there any way to crop videos in Ubuntu, or am I just blind and overlooking the function?

Any help or tip is welcome!

[lisati]

I haven't used openshot much but it appears to have an option where once you have added a clip to a track, you can right click on the clip, select properties, click on the "length" tab, and specify a new length.

[bluekarasu]

you can use Handbrake or Avidemux.

[kramer65]

@ Lisati. Thanks for the tip, but I don't mean that I want to make the video shorter, I mean that I want to cut the bottom part of what you see away (cropping).

@ Bluekarasu. Handbrake doesn't seem to be able to be installed in Ubuntu anymore (see here). I installed Avidemux, but I can't find the option to crop video. Any idea where I can find the crop function?

[JohnAStebbins]

@ Bluekarasu. Handbrake doesn't seem to be able to be installed in Ubuntu anymore (see here).

Just follow the link to the nightly builds. There is a PPA for installing handbrake there.

[AlexDudko]

In Kino the function is called Trim.
(Located in the right menu)

[kramer65]

@ Alexdudko. Trim is unfortunately not the function I mean. I attached an image to this post which I hope explains better what I mean. I want a part of what you see taken away. So not a part in time, but a part in the visual area of the video.

Anyone?


--edit--
@ JohnAStebbins
I am not so familiar with PPA packages, but I tried to install it by running the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots
sudo apt-get update

It did a whole bunch of stuff, and it's finished. Is handbrake now installed? How would I start Handbrake now?

[AlexDudko]

Now I see what you mean. Never used handbrake, so I can't be very helpful for you. But its documentation has the function.
About installing: as far as I know you should also execute the installation command after that:

apt-get install "program name"

[JohnAStebbins]

It did a whole bunch of stuff, and it's finished. Is handbrake now installed? How would I start Handbrake now?

sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk

It will add a menu item "Applications->Sound & Video->HandBrake"
And from the command line, it's 'ghb'

[bigsmitty64]

In kdenlive you can use the "composite" feature to layer tracks on top of one another and resize the layers and get the effect you're looking for maybe? Just a thought.