Crop a video

Cropping your videos is a powerful way to remove unwanted sections, focus on key content, and adapt your videos to various formats. Camtasia provides the perfect toolkit for cropping videos with precision and ease, making it the best video editor available.
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CROP A VIDEO IN CAMTASIA

How to crop a video with Camtasia

Cropping videos with Camtasia is quick and straightforward. Follow these three steps to crop your videos to perfection:
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Step 1: Select the crop tool
Open your video in Camtasia and select the crop tool from the toolbar. This activates cropping mode, allowing you to adjust the video frame to focus on the content that matters most.
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Step 2: Adjust the crop area
Click and drag the corners of the crop box to remove unwanted parts of the video. You can also reposition and scale the content within the frame to ensure your video fits perfectly within the selected layout, whether for a social media post, a tutorial, or any other format.
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Step 3: Finalize the crop
Once you’re satisfied with your adjustments, simply apply the crop. Camtasia automatically resizes and repositions your content to fit within the chosen layout, ensuring a polished and professional result every time.

Benefits of using Camtasia for cropping videos

Camtasia offers unparalleled flexibility and precision when it comes to cropping videos, making it an essential tool for content creators.

Focus your viewers’ attention

Cropping allows you to zoom in on key parts of your screen recording or center the speaker in a camera shot. By directing your viewers’ focus to the most important content, you reinforce your video’s message and improve viewer comprehension.
Before/After: Web camera off center and small with a background in original square vs. a webcam presenter with removed background and speaker centered in the layout frame.

Adapt content for multiple platforms

Cropping your videos with Camtasia makes it easy to repurpose content for various platforms. Whether you need your aspect ratio to fit your video into a vertical format for social media or create a square version for another use, Camtasia provides the tools to quickly scale, move, and frame your content as needed.
The same video in different formats to fit different output platforms.

Create more with Rev

Camtasia’s quick-editing Rev workflow makes it easy to fit your content in different formats. Use dynamic backgrounds, crops, and aspect ratios to create your perfect video. Rev makes your content easily repurposable and editable.
Different rev layouts that show the preemptive cropping options so users do not have to do additional edits.

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