Cropping a video is an essential post-production technique that allows you to cut out elements from your shots that you don’t want to show. Depending on your video, this could be black lines or black bars around your video, unnecessary watermarks, video bombs, and other unfortunate things.

For those who use Windows native video editor Clipchamp to edit and polish their videos, cropping is a relatively simple task. Here’s our step-by-step guide on how to crop a video in Clipchamp.

Clipchamp offers a couple of ways to crop videos: an automatic option and a manual alternative. We’ll go through both of them below. But first, open Clipchamp.

Then select Create a new video.