We haven't been that well at documenting the new features. Just because you were unable to find a simple crop effect under the effects tab, which was sitting right there doesn't mean that we deprived you of the the tools, sir.Da Vinci was made by was made by Da Vinci Systems and is currently owned by Blackmagic Design - both huge corporations - with hundreds of paid full-time developers, documentation writers, testers, etc.Until then, this can get the job done, if maybe a little slowly. In the future I hope a proper crop tool appears in OpenShot.

All I really did was leave everything at default and just change the dimensions.įor cropping to things that aren't centered, you can just move your clip using the transform tool to center the section of the frame you want to crop to. Here's the export settings I used to crop a 720p (1280x720) clip to 960x720. What you would do is create a separate video project for the clip you want cropped, then export it at the dimensions you would like it cropped to. If you want to use OpenShot itself to create the cropped clip, it's 100% possible it just takes more time. Handbrake is a lot easier to use for cropping than the workaround I'm about to show you because it can give you a proper preview of the cropped clip. You could use another free tool like Handbrake, which is a great tool for creating cropped, modified, or converted versions of clips. If you want to use a cropped clip in OpenShot you'll have to use something else to crop it first, then import the new, cropped version.

Maybe it's a much more difficult feature to implement on a technical level but either way, we don't have cropping back in OpenShot yet. It's a little tough because all of the other compositing features available are pretty amazing and much more visually complex than a simple image/video crop. This is a legit issue: OpenShot simply does not have a tool for cropping clips.

Openshot crop video