Blender Addon that allows a user friendly way of cropping videos with render border
Video cropping doesn't have to be hard. But it is anyway.
This addon aims to provide a slightly easier way to just crop videos and as a bonus, create aPNGs out of them.
Have an empty scene with just a camera
Open a shader graph editor
Switch its mode to World
create a node setup like this,
a tex coordinate (Window) go to Image Texture, going into Background or Emission going into World Output
load your video in the image tex node
To preview the video in 3D view, switch to Rendered view, works for Cycles and Eevee If your background is a checkerboard, Go to Render Properties > Film > Disable TransparentZ
To remove repetition outside of the camera view, go to Camera Settings > Viewport Display > Passerpartout = 1.0
To crop the video, draw a render border inside of camera view (Ctrl + B in object mode)
This addon uses the camera's render border to crop the video
You can preview/export the crop in Properties > Output > Video Cropper Panel
You can change/enable the settings, but not all settings are supported for previewing, only for exporting.
- Colors Limit
Sometimes when using start/end seconds, the video will appear blocky in the preview.
This usually doesn't appear in the exported video