How to crop an area of a video with the VN Video Editor app for Android and iPhone by choosing the aspect ratio of the exported video
When it's about cut a video, in Italian there is a risk of confusion because the verb to cut lends itself to ambiguities. can mean so much take a clip of the video itself or even save only one area of the movie.
These are two profoundly different operations which in English are respectively identified with verbs. To trim AND
Harvest. In this article I will show you how you can
show only an area of the video save it in a separate file. It is, therefore, a cut-off Harvest and not the type To trim. Cropping an area of a video is necessary especially when you want to
turn a horizontal video into vertical and vice versa.
If you convert a vertical video to horizontal and vice versa without cropping, the classics will be displayed black bars on the sides or on the top and bottom, respectively. With cropping, however, there will be no black bars, but we will inevitably lose areas of the video. These customizations can be done very easily with computer programs like
da vinci resolves
AND
shotcut
but also with
online tools.
In the rest of the post we will see how to proceed in this regard with a mobile application that can be installed both on android be on iOS. this is the app
VN photo and video editor installable from
Game store
it's fromapp store.
- VN photo and video editor
per android; - VN photo and video editor
per iphone AND iPad.
Both apps are free, even with minimally intrusive ads. You can save them until 100 projects even with the free version which has no other limitations. I have already dealt with this application several times. Here are related posts:
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- How to replace the audio of a video with VN;
- How to hide face or object in a video with VN;
- How to merge video with fade transitions with VN;
- Extract audio from a video and set it as a ringtone with VN.
posted on my
Youtube channel
a tutorial in which I illustrate how cut an area from a video with the app VN.
We will see by way of example how
extract a vertical area from a horizontal widescreen video. It makes the app work vn video editor and click the button More at the bottom center of the first screen.
On the next page, tap New project. With the free version you can save up to 100 projects. In the following screen, we will display all the latest videos present on the device. Yes select the one to operate and you go to the bottom right arrow icon. If the video is not immediately visible, tap the arrow in the menu next to Attachment per select the folder where the video to be cut is located.
The imported video will be displayed in a Timeline. Below are many tools to edit the video.
you touch Harvest which is specific to an area clipping. You then choose the report between width and height.
In the video made as a test, the initial proportion was
16: 9, that is, in the normal video for
YouTube or to the computer. For the cut I chose a proportion 9:16 that is, from a
vertical video suitable for TikTok.
It will be possible drag in all directions the video and zoom so that the saving window matches the area to be extracted. Optionally there are also buttons for
rotate, mirror and flip video.
You go to the button Checks in the bottom right corner to save the settings. The video will be shown again on
Timeline. To view it correctly, tap Original, top center to choose the
report between the width and height defined for
Harvest. In our case it is 9:16. then go to the button
blue arrow.
The next screen is used to define the export parameters, i.e. the resolution (from 720p for 4K), The frame rate (from 24fps for
60fps) AND the bit rate (low, medium or high). you tap the button Checks to start the codification.
Encoding progress will be displayed in a
progress bar. At the end of the codification, a screen will be shown in which we type the project title and optionally yours too Description. He goes down on the button save to album to save the video in
Gallery (Android). Before proceeding to save the video, it is advisable to go to the end of the Timeline and select the last thumbnail. These are some moments in which writing shows itself entry title. You have to select it and then go up Delete down to delete this.
