How to Crop a Video

Cropping your videos is a simple but effective way to reframe your video and keep the audience’s attention.

In this video I show you how to do just that with a few easy steps inside of Camtasia.

0:00 - Quickly Crop Your Videos - Intro
0:42 - Toggle Crop Mode on
0:53 - Crop by using Handles on the Canvas
1:10 - Exit Crop Mode by Clicking the Cursor Mode
1:19 - Eliminate Black Boxes Around Your Clip
1:35 - Be Careful not to Scale Above 100%
1:51 - Put an Animation or Video Behind Your Cropped Clip
2:16 - Blur Your Background
2:47 - Repeat as needed

#cropvideo, #videocropping, #howto

[VictorGeorgiou]

Tech Smith's short how-to's are always well done and educational. Keep up the great work, folks!

[HeatherMajors]

So glad I found this video today. I was trying to crop in a video yesterday and just could not get the black bar to go away without it looking odd. Now I have some actionable ideas, YEA!

[goldengoal]

Thanks for sharing ! I was trying to do it with Adobe After Effects, a heavy tool for such an easy task.

[orangeeatmore]

Finally, not a 50 minute long political debate before the actual tutorial.

Thanks for this!

[carivenorim]

Hello, I have a question, when I work on a video with audio and music, can you adjust the audio track in Camtasia so that when each time a pause is made, the music automatically goes up and when speaking it goes down again so that you can better understand what is being said?

[liamChalloner]

What if I wanted to crop the person out but have them still in a video

[gerrykeaveney]

good info however i find the constant reframing very distracting. your video is constantly jumping back and forward using small crops.

[AndersVz]

Hello TechSmith, is it somehow possible to crop a video into a circle shape and not a square? thank you in advanced

[zonerelied]

What app is this, because he like never stated it & yall are saying it helps.

[alanliard]

It crops it for the first 0.05seconds, then flips the video upside down and the crop is gone.
what the hell ?!

[ClERCE]

NOOO they give you a watermark what a waste

[morganism]

Bruh which platform are you using cuz I have no idea

[mooseydeucy]

But what you DON'T tell us is that Camtasia is not FREE and if you try to use it without subscribing it leaves a hideous Watermatk on your project. smh

[aw]

yeah cool and then youre gonna have to have some crappy watermark which is gonna distract the viewers

[andyrussellDJ]

this is useless for mac and you haven't even said what programme you are using