Video Cropping
Cropping video to remove unwanted edges, black borders or distractions, or to tighten the framing.
- Price
- From $45.00 per finished minute
- Free trial
- A 30-second cut from your own footage, no card, no commitment.
What to send us
The video, the area to keep and any borders, black edges or distractions to remove.
What you get back
Cropped video with unwanted edges, black borders or distractions removed and the framing tightened, exported at the best resolution the crop allows.
What to check before you sign off
Check that the crop does not reduce resolution too much. Heavy cropping can make footage soft.
Part of Video Resizing. How the work runs and what it costs across the family are set out in the video editing & production guide.
Rates and common questions for this work are on the Video Editing & Production page.
How we approach this work
Articles from the journal, written by the people who do this work. More on this subject →
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