How to Crop A Video on Windows/mac (3Method) Crop Online

How to Crop A Video on Windows/mac (3Method) Crop Online Free

Hello video creators! Welcome to KitoTips. In this Post we will show you how to easily crop a video. Cropping a video means cutting out a portion of the frame. It is often used especially when we have a large scale video and want to focus on something in the frame. We will go through three methods to crop a video on both windows and Mac.

Method 1: Crop Video Online

Now let’s jump into the tutorial. The first way is to use online video cropper. From hitpaw.com, you can get access to quite a lot of online media tools. A good thing about using online tools is that you don’t need to any software's on your desktop. The process can be done in the cloud, which means it won’t drain too much power of the computer.

Select this crop and rotate tool. And click crop and rotate video now. Choose file, import your own video. Take this video for example. On the right side are some default aspect ratio.

We can choose different ratio as we need. Below are some rotating and mirroring effects. We can also customize the size ourselves. Let’s say we want the video to focus on the person. Just crop the extra part like this. Then preview the video.

When you feel OK with it, click save. Then you can either or share it to other platforms. The online tool is free to use for videos under 20 megabytes. If you need to process large video files, you may upgrade to pro and unlock the size limit.

Method 2: Crop Video on Pc:

Alright here is the second method. We are using HitPaw Video Editor to crop a video. It is an easy to use video editor, especially friendly to new users. After installing it on the desktop.

Launch it. Start a new project. We can import videos here. Then drag it to the time line. This little icon here is the crop tool. Click on it. Then we can be able to change the aspect ratio, and adjust the size of the frame freely.

We will place the rectangle in the middle and emphasize the person. When we click the play button, we can see the crop result directly. Then click OK to apply. Now we have cropped the video. To save the video, click export.

Please be noted that the free trial version will add a watermark in the middle of the final video. There won’t be watermark when we register and pay for the pro version.

Here is the price of the editor. So after registering, we can select format,

resolution, frame rate, then export to get the video.

Method 3: Crop Video By Premiere Pro

The third method is using Premiere Pro. Open Premiere Pro, create a new project. Double click here to import a video. Then drag the media to the time line. Alright then select the clip.

Change its scale parameter here. Scale it up. And change its position until we have the focus on the person. Now we have cropped it successfully. Next, export this media file, choose a path you want to save. And click export to get the video. These are some options on how to crop a video.

Differences:

Method 1:

The online cropper is a good choice when dealing with simple video editing and it is very convenient without any software's.

Method 2:

HitPaw Video Editor the desktop version is more suitable for beginners to easily edit full videos more than cropping.

Method 3:

While Adobe Premiere Pro is also a good video editing software, it is more complex to use and it’s more suitable for professional video editing. Alright this is today’s blog.

Let us know what you think about this tutorial or you have other solution to crop a video, in the comments below. We will do our best to answer them. If this article helps, don’t forget to bookmark our Website for more useful media tools and tutorials like this one. See you next time.