How to crop Screen Recordings under Snow Leopard?

Solution 1:

Checkout the video here:

How to Use Quicktime to Crop Video with Letterbox/Pillarbox

If you upgraded SL from Leopard you can do this via Quicktime 7 otherwise they have cut out all the awesome editing features from QT10. :(

Solution 2:

I don't think you can do this directly while recording in QuickTime, but you can do it with QuickTime and iMovie.

I got the desired effect by

1. Doing a full screen recording
2. Opening the recording in iMovie
3. Using the "Cropping, Ken Burns and Rotation" tool under the Windows menu to crop just the region I wanted to show.
4. Export the iMovie to the desired format (under the iMovie Share menu)

Solution 3:

iMovie allows for cropping the frame (at least in the iLife 09 version).

Apple has a tutorial video online at http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie-crop