Advanced Crop 1.0 review

Advanced crop is a plug-in for iMovie that provides one of the most important functions in movie editing: it allows you to crop a clip to an arbitrary shape, or punch an arbitrarily shaped 'hole' into your clip.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1272K Developer: cf/x Buy Now Price: $4.00 Updated: 29 Jun 2005

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Advanced crop is a plug-in for iMovie that provides one of the most important functions in movie editing: it allows you to crop a clip to an arbitrary shape, or punch an arbitrarily shaped 'hole' into your clip.

Here are some key features of "Advanced Crop":
blending with cropped parts (100 levels)
setting lower blend limit
setting upper blend limit
inverting selection (for 'holes')
mix a background picture into cropped parts
crop any shape from your clip
crop your clip to any shape
high-light parts of your clip (using blend-back)
darken parts of your clip (using blend-back)
make space for letters, chroma-keying areas
insert logos into cropped areas.

Please note:
• Because of a limitation in iMovie, you cannot alter the actual size of the clip. anything you crop off will be set to a user-selectable background color or picture.
There is a free, much simpler version of this plug-in available as well.

Limitations:
demo mode watermarks the clip with a 'please register' message, but functions identically to the registered version.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or later
iMovie 3.