[FR] Cropping

[God-damnit-all]

I'd really like the ability to use the mouse on the video playback area to specify a crop area, and perhaps fine-tune the selected area further by resizing a selection box and/or adjusting coordinate/size values for the cropping area on another part of the GUI.

[bartekmotyl]

Hmm, are you aware of the functionality of mouse middle-button on the timeline? It allows you to place begin/end markers which you can later fine-tune by dragging them.

[God-damnit-all]

What does that have to do with cropping the video? I'm not talking about timecodes, I'm talking about doing things like cutting off black borders.

[bartekmotyl]

Ah, OK, I miss read your first request. So you mean to crop the resulting video (in this case this would be possible only with re-encoding, of course). This indeed is not possible (yet).

[KoolKeith]

Please reject requests like these quicker. Sorry ImportTaste. go elsewhere.
The whole point of this project, to NOT re-encode videos. This is fantastic and absolutely cruicial in my opinion. I have searched a long time for a project like this. Re-Encoding = Not here please.

[God-damnit-all]

Please reject requests like these quicker. Sorry ImportTaste. go elsewhere. The whole point of this project, to NOT re-encode videos. This is fantastic and absolutely cruicial in my opinion. I have searched a long time for a project like this. Re-Encoding = Not here please.

Well aren't you a ray of sunshine.

[God-damnit-all]

For the record, "screen cropping" is possible to do without re-encoding via the mkv container.

Even discounting that, I'm not exactly sure why you think an option to re-encode would require the removal of the option to not re-encode. LosslessCut, for example, is a project that supports doing both (but lossless is the default).

[bartekmotyl]

I do not think there is a reason to "reject" any requests instead of collecting them here as ideas.
I will probably not implement it (do not have much time for the project anyway, and even if I had, there are other improves reported that in my opinion are more useful) but maybe some other contributor would like to do so (@ImportTaste - you are invited 😄 )

For the record, "screen cropping" is possible to do without re-encoding via the mkv container.

Good to know, I didn't know that. I think that in the end re-encoding is not a problem, if you are interested in more complex features. In the end you as a user decide whether you use the option or not. But definitely, one of the major features of SVC is to offer cutting without re-encoding, so this will always be possible.

[KoolKeith]

Even discounting that, I'm not exactly sure why you think an option to re-encode would require the removal of the option to not re-encode. LosslessCut, for example, is a project that supports doing both (but lossless is the default).

You are right. I'm sorry for behaving like a gollum yesterday.