VLC fake instructions

[stuckonthis]

Advanced Preferences

1. Go to Tools > Preferences [CTRL + P].
2. Under Show settings (bottom-left), choose All.
3. Navigate to Video in Advanced Preferences.
4. Scroll down (on the right side) to the Zoom video option.
5. Set the zoom factor like 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2 and 5.
6. Hit Save.

     like this works.....   those numbers don't mean sh!t it will just zoom in the default way.  I want to zoom and stretch and portrait and landscape the films. anyone know any real programs out there that actually let you use the apps they way you want them without pretending?

[Needfuldoer]

So the zoom settings... zoom the video? VLC has other settings for cropping the playback window or stretching anamotphic video, but that's only for that specific play instance. It doesn't affect the source files unless you transcode with it.

 

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Sounds like you need a video editor.

 

If you want to crop video files to different aspect ratios, you need a video editor. BlackMagic DaVinci Resolve can do everything most people need an NLE to do, and it doesn't cost anything. You can do basic crops and aspect ratio correction with FFMPEG (or one of its frontends like Handbrake), but that's a cycle of tweak-render-tweak-render until you get it right.

Edited September 20, 2022 by Needfuldoer

[Middcore]

The instructions for zoom in VLC do exactly what they're intended to do. What you want is beyond the the functionality of a media player.

[stuckonthis]

On 9/20/2022 at 1:21 AM, Middcore said:

The instructions for zoom in VLC do exactly what they're intended to do. What you want is beyond the the functionality of a media player.

I'll give it a go but i'm not convinced.

[stuckonthis]

On 9/19/2022 at 11:31 PM, Needfuldoer said:

So the zoom settings... zoom the video? VLC has other settings for cropping the playback window or stretching anamotphic video, but that's only for that specific play instance. It doesn't affect the source files unless you transcode with it.

 

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Sounds like you need a video editor.

 

If you want to crop video files to different aspect ratios, you need a video editor. BlackMagic DaVinci Resolve can do everything most people need an NLE to do, and it doesn't cost anything. You can do basic crops and aspect ratio correction with FFMPEG (or one of its frontends like Handbrake), but that's a cycle of tweak-render-tweak-render until you get it right.

Just installed 2 gigabytes of junk...

[Needfuldoer]

35 minutes ago, stuckonthis said:

Just installed 2 gigabytes of junk...

All of those tools will "zoom and stretch and portrait and landscape" digital video, if you learn how to use them.

 

If you don't want to learn them, just uninstall them.

[stuckonthis]

38 minutes ago, stuckonthis said:

Just installed 2 gigabytes of junk...

does not even save your video files it just pretends to

[stuckonthis]

20 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

All of those tools will "zoom and stretch and portrait and landscape" digital video, if you learn how to use them.

 

If you don't want to learn them, just uninstall them.

 

20 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

All of those tools will "zoom and stretch and portrait and landscape" digital video, if you learn how to use them.

 

If you don't want to learn them, just uninstall them.

 

20 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

All of those tools will "zoom and stretch and portrait and landscape" digital video, if you learn how to use them.

 

If you don't want to learn them, just uninstall them.

It's finding them that's the problem. Thanks for quick responses.