How to change wrong default setting in iMovie?

Hi, Piotr Kowal,

Go to iMovie/Preferences and set the Photo Placement default setting to Fit. The setting will apply to all projects created after you changed the setting.

Also, as you probably know, you can always select a clip and then click on the crop button (the one that looks like intersecting angles) in the tool box at the upper right hand corner of your screen. In the controls that appear you can set the default to Fit, Crop to Fill, or Ken Burns. That will change the default for the selected clips.

-- Rich

It IS the right answer. The "Photo" default designation in iMovie preferences applies to both photos and videos. When you change the setting the setting will not apply to existing projects, but only to projects created after you change the setting, as I said. I'm not sure off hand, but you may need to close and restart iMovie after making the settings change.

Try again and see if it works correctly with a new project created after you make the settings change. If it doesn't work then iMovie is not functioning properly. In that case, dry deleting preferences. To do that, open iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys and select to delete preferences in the box that appears. iMovie will open in a new library. Reopen

your old library to get back to your projects. Now see if the default setting procedure works.

-- Rich

Glad you got it working. It's not readily apparent that changes to the default settings don't apply to the current project. And, no fault of yours for not realizing that "Photo Placement" also means "Video Placement".

Anyway, you've got it working now. Hats in the air! :)

-- Rich