Desqueeze anamorphic footage in imovie 10.3?

As I understand it, you have some distorted anamorphic footage that has been squeezed due to aspect ratio being changed. Correct?

If so, there is no iMovie feature that would desqueeze your footage. iMovie's 16:9 aspect ratio screen cannot be changed.

You would need to adjust the aspect ratio with an external app. The free download VLC does have some capability of adjusting the aspect ratio.

-- Rich

So if you had some video that was squeezed and distorted like this drum set. . .

. . . I believe that you could use VLC to bring it back out like this:

You would need to experiment. Undoubtedly there are several other apps out there that would

do this type of thing.

-- Rich

I just noticed that with VLC one can change the aspect ratio, and play back the changed aspect ratio in VLC, but I wasn't able to find a way to export the video to the desktop with the change carrying over.

However, I could play the video in VLC with the aspect ratio changed and take a screen recording (Command-Shift-5 and drag select) as the video played. That gave me a desktop file that, when played in QuickTimePlayer, reflected the aspect ratio change.

-- Rich

Hey GNH999,

Here's a helpful user guide you can check out to learn all about the available features of iMovie for Mac: iMovie User Guide for Mac

We hope this helps!

Best regards.