Video resolution cannot be arbitrary

[ArkBlitz]

I recorded a screencast (800x600 px) and processed it in OpenShot. When I checked the export screen, there was no way to export the video to exactly 800x600 as I had intended. The nearest thing was NTSC (640x480). I would like to have a "custom" option where you can write the height x width of a video to export it with exactly that size.
Using latest OpenShot (1.1.2) on Ubuntu Karmic via the custom PPA.

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

Good idea. I tag it in the whitelist and so, it will not lost. Thanks.

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Just a note: OpenShot uses "profiles", which each define their own aspect ratio, size, frame rate, etc... In the preferences window, a user can create their own "custom" profile, which can have an arbitrary size. It's not super intuitive, but it can be done. =)

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Also, those custom profiles are stored in the /home/YOURUSER/.openshot/ folder. So, in theory, you can edit them in Gedit or some text editor, and quickly make many custom profiles.

[Dan Dascalescu (ddascalescu+launchpad)]

I've just tried this and it didn't work. I wanted to simply match the profile of the only input video clip in the project, something that Openshot makes unnecessarily difficult (see Bug #1166169)

What I got was some different format (720x480).

Here's the generated user profile:

description=LEAVE ME ALONE
frame_rate_num=25000
frame_rate_den=1000
width=720
height=408
progressive=0
sample_aspect_num=1
sample_aspect_den=1
display_aspect_num=30
display_aspect_den=17