Clip and crop BlackBerry for YouTube Upload

How to clip and crop BlackBerry Torch HD video for YouTube upload on Mac

It is wonderful to have a BlackBerry Torch 9580 or 9560, the 3.7-inch touch screen of which takes all the video streaming, web browsing, photos, and gaming to a higher level. What's more, the build-in 5MP camera allow you to shoot 720p HD video recording. However, HD video often have larger size than SD footage that is of the same lenth, a 15-minute clip may so large that is refused by YouTube becase it exceeds the YouTube upload limit.

If you want to upload video to YouTube with sound loading speed, good video quality as well as excellent view effect, then you video footage should meet the standard below:

Video format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 recommended
Aspect ratio: Original screen aspect ration without top or bottom black border, for example, 4:3, 16:9.
Resolution: 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) recommended.
Audio format: MP3 or AAC Recommended.
FPS (Frame per second): 30
Video length limit: 15 minutes (2 to 3 minutes recommended)
Video size limit: 2 GB

There is no doubt that you have to clip the long original BlackBerry Torch HD footage to get a 2-3 minutes segment for YouTube and crop it in order to get rid of those awful black edge. And if the video resolution is not proper, you also need to modify it to 16:9 or 4:3.

BlackBerry Video Editor for Mac is the right software to catch your fancy, and clip or crop BlackBerry Torch 9580/9560 HD video to YouTube acceptable standard on your Mac laptop. Besides, BlackBerry Video Editor allow you to take still photos from the recorded BlackBerry HD video.

Note: Besides BlackBerry Torch 9580/9560, BlackBerry Video Editor is able to convert and edit all the videos from any model of BlackBerry smart phone, including the downloaded MP4, M4V, 3GP, M4A, AVI, WMV, ASF videos and the camera recorded video files.

Step by step to show you how to crop and clip BlackBerry Torch 9580/9560 HD video for YouTube with BlackBerry Video Editor.

You have to download and launch program Mac BlackBerry Video Editor on Mac in advance.

Load BlackBerry Torch HD recordings to program.

Click Add File to import BlackBerry Torch HD recordings to the program. You can add a batch of videos if you need.

Set output format as MPEG-4 for YouTube.

Click Profile to select MPEG-4 as the target format from the format option menu.

Clip BlackBerry Torch HD videos to Youtube.

Click Clip to enter the Clip window, you can split and save your wanted video segment. There are tree methods to extract the required video part, please look below pictures for reference.

Crop HD footages form BlackBerry Torch to Youtube.

Click Edit and then click Crop to enter the window where you can drag the green bar to cut out the black edges of your video or manually set the value of left, right, top, bottom; also you can reset the resolution to 16:9 or 4:3.

Save the output videos

Save the output Youtube MPEG-4 videos after BlackBerry Torch HD conversion. Click the large green button to convert your BlackBerry Torch HD videos to Youtube MPEG-4.