Crop or Resize Video Clip???

No. You cannot crop your clip. But...

The iMovie window on your computer screen reveals more along the edges than a standard tv does. Try testing your exported video on a television to check if your theory is true.

Hi Rob,

for sure you can crop your clips.. but you don't have to... iMovie shows the "whole" content of a tape, but as said abovie a TV "cuts off" a little...

in case you want to crop and zoom, you need plug-ins, have a look here:

for free: eliminate borders
crop
for 2.50$
zoom

I don't profit from any recommendation or link, I'm a user, not a salesman.

Karsten. You're always there to contradict me. Even as you admit that I'm right.

My view on these things is this: why make more work for yourself? You acknowledge that it's unneccessary to 'crop' the video, then you tell the poster to go buy a plug-in.

Do you realize how much work that will make for them depending on the size of the project? iMovie makes editing video easy. Why complicate it?

First they crop one hour worth of footage and pretty soon they're griping to people about how crappy iMoive is because it doesn't do this or that out of the box.

Lots of these people are newbies so take it easy on them.

Hi Greg,

I hope, you don't take it as personal offense, that I contract you (do I "allways"..?)...- in case, apologize for that!

But 😉
as ONE example: do you see the zilllions of posting "How do I import from dvd-cam/stillcam..."? Your answer would be "Can't be done!" << which is from the makers of iM indeed intended so! ... but, then your mentioned people tell about crappy Macs... So, I copy-'n-paste from my "notes" my standard answer "get for free Streamclip and..."

This is a board; different people, different opinions... some people posting here spend $$$$($) into hard- and software and don't even use the "help" function before posting here - far away from reading manuals, books, doing tutorials etc.pp.-

I totally agree in one point: I'm no technician, nor expert as Karl, Lennart, Matti, David or Dan, my "position" in this forum is more on the far side, for the workarounds, I do like the arcane, silly methods to make the impossible possible.- I'm a Mac user since '86, I experience the Mac as MY dream machine, allowing me to realize my creativity - on a pro level, it is my typewriter (no big specs neccessary) but I cannot spend much money into my hobbies (video, websites)... so I DO need these dirty tricks...

I post my experiences & methods here - it is up to you to share these methods.
or not.

In this case:
the OP has TWO questions: a problem with pic quality, and you (and I) gave him the hint: No Problem at all!
second, you gave the answer "cropping is impossible" - that is wrong. it is not needed, but it is possible, so, maybe in another project, maybe some other reader of this thread has use for such cropping...- the programmer of this plug-in shows examples on his website...-

if I want to take it easy with them, I would post 234times a day RTFM.........;-)