Articles by Elliot

Crop video in a Live Broadcasting project

Monday, December 5th, 2011

One of the main requests for the next version of Expression Encoder was the ability to crop your sources in a Live Broadcasting Project. We heard, and now, that option is available in Service Pack 2, which is the newly-released version of Expression Encoder 4. You can crop both your live and file source videos, to any dimension. Depending upon your resize choices, the cropped video will either display a letterbox in the cropped area or will stretch the source video to match the crop dimensions, just as it works in the Silverlight and Transcoding projects. It’s a simple thing to do. Here’s how.
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Creating gradients using colors from other objects in Expression Design

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Create custom color gradients using colors from other objects in Expression Design.

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Getting Friendly With Presets, Part III

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In Part III of our exploration of Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 presets, we conclude our look at presets by giving you a few tips on maximizing your productivity using presets.

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Cropping in Expression Design, Part III

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Tthe third and final installment of Cropping in Expression Design explores another way to create simple crops.

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Cropping in Expression Design, Part II

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Cropping is simple in Expression Design. Here, we learn how to use the Crop Marks command to create quick, easy crops.

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