Reference / Effects / Utility
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Crop
Crop is a Utility effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Takes the picture away past four edges, each set from its own side of the frame. The crop half of Vegas’s Pan/Crop. A clip’s Pan/Crop button in the Cut timeline puts a Crop and a Transform on the clip.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Left | Slider | 0 to 100 | 0 | Per cent |
| Top | Slider | 0 to 100 | 0 | Per cent |
| Right | Slider | 0 to 100 | 0 | Per cent |
| Bottom | Slider | 0 to 100 | 0 | Per cent |
| Feather | Slider | 0 to 500; higher | 0 | Pixels at composition size |
| Mix | Slider | 0 to 100 | 100 | Per cent |
| Blend | Dropdown | Normal · Darken · Multiply · Colour burn · Linear burn · Darker colour · Add · Lighten · Screen · Colour dodge · Lighter colour · Overlay · Soft light · Hard light · Linear light · Vivid light · Pin light · Hard mix · Difference · Exclusion · Subtract · Divide · Hue · Saturation · Colour · Luminosity | Normal | - |
| Matte | Layer | Any layer in the composition | None | - |
| Invert | Checkbox | On or off | Off | - |
| Channel | Dropdown | Luminance · Alpha · Red · Green · Blue | Luminance | - |
In the Effect Controls panel:
- Matte is an input to an effect, scaling the strength. Invert inverts the mattes for calculating strength.
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- Left, Top, Right and Bottom: how much of the frame goes from that side, in per cent.
- Feather: how soft the edges are.
- Mix: how much of the result replaces the original.