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How does one remove a black border around a video. The input video has the size 720x576 and has the output video should be 720x480. I need to crop away 96 pixels from top and bottom.

I have gazed through this list of video tools for Mac, but I'm unsure which tools can do this. I have tried MPEG Streamclip and avidemux2, but they doesn't seem capable of it.

Preferable a free tool.

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Aha, in MPEG Streamclip if you select Export as mp4, there is a crop checkbox and some textfields where you can type in the number of pixels to be cropped.

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Take a look at Handbrake as well, even though it sounds you've solved the issue. – alexandru Feb 8 '11 at 20:17
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If you are using MacBook or iMac the best app is iMovie.

  1. Create new project in iMovie
  2. Import video to iMovie and then drag and drop it in your new project
  3. Select you video in project and use crop button in preview window
  4. Export your new video and use it
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Welcome to Ask Different! Can you add more detail to this answer? How do you crop a movie using iMovie? Please take a look at the FAQs for more info. Thanks. – Nathan Greenstein♦ Dec 8 '11 at 14:57
1- Create new project in iMovie. 2- Import video to iMovie and then drag and drop it in your new project. 3- select you video in project and use crop button in preview window. 4- export your new video and use it. – Siamak Hejazi Dec 9 '11 at 7:04
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Yeah, iMovie is great if you want to spend 15 minutes waiting for it to generate thumbnails across a 30 minute movie that you only want to extract 30 seconds from. – Mike Ruhlin May 24 '12 at 3:53

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