Sloow

This isn't really a jitter question, more a QT or Final cut one perhaps. I want to generate two streams of video 320 x 480 that I can recombine onto one screen in the final jitter patch. How do I take a DV capture that is 720x480 and cut 1/2 of it away so that I can use it? I am planning to film to one side of the display so that I can cut the other side off.

cropping-video-for-later-use-in-jitter

On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Paul Litherland wrote:

> This isn't really a jitter question, more a QT or Final cut one 

> perhaps. I want to generate two streams of video 320 x 480 that I 

> can recombine onto one screen in the final jitter patch. How do I 

> take a DV capture that is 720x480 and cut 1/2 of it away so that I 

> can use it? I am planning to film to one side of the display so 

AFAIK, this is kind of annoying to do in FCP, though perhaps there's 

some way to use scripting to your advantage. Otherwise you need to 

create an FCP project at the output resolution and place your footage 

(with correct offset/scaling) in the timeline and then export.

If you have jitter, I might suggest a simple batch processing 

framedump of the movies from jit.qt.movie through a crop (jit.matrix 

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> This isn't really a jitter question, more a QT or Final cut one  
> perhaps. I want to generate two streams of video 320 x 480 that I  
> can recombine onto one screen in the final jitter patch. How do I  
> take a DV capture that is 720x480 and cut 1/2 of it away so that I  
> can use it? I am planning to film to one side of the display so  
> that I can cut the other side off.

AFAIK, this is kind of annoying to do in FCP, though perhaps there's  
some way to use scripting to your advantage. Otherwise you need to  
create an FCP project at the output resolution and place your footage  
(with correct offset/scaling) in the timeline and then export.

If you have jitter, I might suggest a simple batch processing  
framedump of the movies from jit.qt.movie through a crop (jit.matrix  
srcdim/dstdim) + to jit.qt.record.

Cropping video for later use in Jitter