Someone post if they ever find it! I think the problem is in the concepts. Maybe somewhere there's a button or setting to just click and crop sensibly. It's crazy to have to do all that but blame FlashIntegro for their poor guidance. Your vid image will be wherever you cropped it so drag it across to fit in the black area.Įxport Project REMEMBERING to change the name if necessary! You should now have a new blank black area the size you want on top of the background colour.

Top left Projects - create new project - change the default size to the size you wrote down, then click Blank Project bottom left and OK. (options - paper-settings -background color)Ĭrop as I described in my first post but as you do so write down the new size (in brackets just below vid)ĭrag the selector lines to where the crop is (ie, excluding the black borders you don't want.)ĭon't close VSDC before the following or do any other copy ops Make sure you've set the background paper to non-black, eg green so you can see the vid area. But meanwhile, I just found another workaround for anyone else with this problem: (and also why would anyone want black borders by default!) What am I missing? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And at the bottom of the panel a grey area where 'Cropped Borders' appears twice, but they are passive and even right click does nothing. In various guides I've seen ref to object properties window and a crop borders button but such a button does not appear on mine (VSDC v 6.3.9.49 free version) The nearest I see is the property: Cutting and Splitting and below that: Cropped borders showing the values. When I export the project it is exactly as before with black borders. There are no other options and nothing on right click so I click OK button.īack in the main editor there is no visible difference.

(note I have the main background behind that set at bright green so I can see what is actual video.) I drag the dotted selector line and drag to cover the central image leaving the black borders outside. The only other button is Set orig size but I left that alone as I got in a mess before. Select Editor on button then select Crop Tools on the button bar that appears below that.Ī panel opens up with the video showing and a dotted selector line. I've searched and found several guides but none of them agree with what I am seeing in the editor itself. How do I crop black borders in free VSDC please?

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