To crop and resize video

1. On the toolbar, click Properties, and then click the Video Size tab.
2. In the source list, click the source that you want to crop. (Only necessary for multisource sessions.)
3. If you are sourcing from devices or screens, in Crop, type the input size.
4. In Crop Method, click Custom or one of the default crop values.
5. If you selected custom cropping, enter the number of pixels to trim from the top, bottom, left, and right sides of the video.
6. In Resize method, click one of the following:
   • Same as profile. Stretches the dimensions of the output video to match the frame size specified in the profile.
   • No resizing. The dimensions of the output video match the dimensions of the cropped input video.
   • Auto. When the source is a file, the dimensions of the output video are resized to make use of the bandwidth specified in the profile, while simultaneously attempting to maintain the aspect ratio of the cropped input image. If the input size you specified in step 4 is different than the actual input size, then the dimensions of the output video match the dimensions of the cropped input video.
   • Custom. Enables you to specify custom dimensions for the output video.
7. If you are encoding MBR content, click a different bit rate and resize it. (This option is only available if you selected the Custom or Same as profile resize method for the first bit rate.)

Note

• If you are cropping content that is also being deinterlaced or to which you are applying the inverse telecine filter, then the top and bottom cropping values must each be evenly divisible by 2.

Related topics

• Cropping and resizing video before encoding
• Optimizing video and audio