It will “not” change your video.įor example: Your video is in 1920:1080 also known as 16:9. This will change the resolution on the timeline or your whole project. It will open in a new tab, so don’t worry about losing this article. Just scroll down the page and check if you find it interesting. To learn about this, here is an article I’ve written, that shows different ways to do this. You can do really cool things with letterboxing, and even make your video format fit the screen in the cinemas or just wide monitors. This is really easy, just go to “Timeline>Output Blanking” and choose whatever aspect ratio you would like.Įvery number lower than 1.77 will crop from the sides and every higher number wil crop from top and bottom. You can of course also add vertical black bars bars also known as pillarboxing. This method is if you want to letterbox or add those black bars to get that cinematic look which you get by cropping the top or bottom. Cropping by Changing “Aspect Ratio” (Fake Letterbox)
If you want to undo whatever happend just hit that “arrow circle” on the right-side. This result in squeezing and destroying the footage. Then if you change one of the axes, you are literally just changing one of the axes. So by clicking on the sign it will change color from white to gray which means they are now unlinked. Whenever you change the X-axis you’ll also change the Y-axis. You can also see I’ve made a white circle around that chain/link sign. Here you just hover your mouse over the boxes I’ve circled and drag to the sides to zoom in or out. Once again select the clip in the timeline you want to zoom and head over to the inspector. How do you do it? It’s about the same process as the cropping in method 1. Click here to read, it will open in a new tab so don’t worry about losing one. If you want to know more about letterboxing (black bars) and aspect ratio, I’ve written an own article on that topic, which I really recommend you read if you want to understand this concept fully. The great part of cropping this way is that you don’t get the black bars on a normal 16:9 ratio screen. What you do here is simply zooming in on what you want to keep and the parts getting outside the viewer are cropped. This is also a way to crop your video, by zooming you will crop it from all sides or only 2 depending on how you are positioning the frame. Zoom to Crop (Crop Without Changing the Aspect Ratio) It opens in a new tab so you won’t lose this one! 2. Here’s an article I’ve written about a couple of studio headphones. By using those you can hear when the audio sounds bad! Just a quick tip. The only way to fix the problem is basically by using studio headphones, as these are only sending the genuine audio without any audio manipulation. Hence, the reason so many YouTubers have terrible audio, since they don’t know it themself.
This is a good thing, however, for video editors, not so much! Because you can’t hear if your audio is bad, as your speakers are fixing the audio before it gets to your ears, even when you’re editing in Davinci Resolve. Meaning the audio is getting more and more manipulated to satisfy your ears… It’s something that’s harder and harder to do because the headphones, earbuds, laptops are getting quite advanced now. It’s just a quick tip to fix your audio quality. I’ve seen so many videos ruined by this, so wanted to share it in this article as it has some traffic. I do really recommend trying the other methods as well, they’re essential to know if you’re interested in getting good at video editing! Something, important to mention! Especially if you’re going to play the video on multiple devices or show the video to others: There you go, that is the most basic method, but of course very essential to know. Now you have the option to crop it from whatever side you would like! Just drag for example “Crop Right” and you’ll create a black bar which will cover part of the video. Now once you have the inspector open you can scroll down to where it stands “Cropping”. To expand this menu click on the arrow in the white circle. Then you head to the inspector (right side) if it did not open click on “Inspector” which I’ve made a red circle around in the picture below. What you want to do is select the clip you want to crop in the timeline.
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This is what most people refer to as cropping so let’s start with how to do this one. Let’s start with the most basic crop and end with the most advanced.Įvery method described in this article will be done from the Edit page. Therefore I’ll try to cover most of them in this article. There isn’t only one answer to this question either as there are many variants of “cropping”. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of questions on DaVinci Resolve crop video or how to do it.