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♪ [music playing-- no dialogue] ♪♪.
(female voiceover). Sometimes it'll be necessary
to crop either your video or your still
image, just to maybe crop something
out that's unwanted in the frames.
So to do that, let me show this clip right here of our clock
tower on campus and let me play it back for you.
You'll notice this black spot out in the sky and then it
starts to kind of fade of away a little bit.
Well, actually what that is, it's a dust spot that was in the
video camera, which can be a common problem.
So if I need to use the clock tower in my video, but I'd like
to crop out that black spot, let me show you how you can do that.
What we need to do is get to cropping and rotation and we can
get there a couple ways.
We can click on this clip and then click on the blue action
wheel and select cropping and rotation, or once we have the
clip highlighted, we can simply click on crop on the tool bar
and then our viewer becomes an editing window.
And you'll notice its put a green line right
around the boarder of the clip.
If I click on crop and then take the corner and click and drag,
and drag it until the black spot is no longer in the frame, then
I can take my mouse and just put it in the middle and I get the
hand and I can click and hold and then reposition.
Now this button right here will actually let you preview that,
but I think I'm set with my decision so I'm going to go
ahead and click done.
And then I'll play it back and now it did change the original
framing but at least the black spots out of the sky.
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