Video Effects: Clip versus Crop

[videolady]

I'm creating basically a glorified slide show in PE3 (all still photos). In one section, I want a series of photos popping up, moving around the screen, changing size and opacity - that's all good.

But as they move, I want to change the dimensions to focus more on each character, so I might need the top to be trimmed with one, and the bottom and left side in another, etc etc.

For this, I see the Crop or Clip tools in Video Effects, but at the moment, I can't tell if they are just 2 different ways of accomplishing the same thing or if there are benefits of one over the other. (maybe their features differ more with video footage rather than stills?)

Sorry if this is really basic, boring stuff.

Karen

[Steve Grisetti]

The difference is that Crop will trim away a part of your clip, revealing the video on the track or tracks below.

Clip trims away a part of your clip, revealing a background color that you set.

[Chuck Engels]

For that very reason there is a free video tutorial here, to show you the difference
http://muvipix.com/products.php?maincat ... bcat_id=10

[Greg mgm]

I was wondering the same thing about clip vs crop. Good info.

Chuck- That was an excellent tutorial! It looks like you did a lot of work to make it. Was the audio done all in one take, straight through?

[Chuck Engels]

Thanks Greg,
I do the narration while recording the tutorial, then I tweak the audio (remove dead space, edit out mistakes ) and sometime re-record pieces.