Both Landscape and Portrait in Final Cut Pro Video (iPad)

I am using the new Final Cut Pro app on an M4 iPad. I have a video that was taken in portrait and have added some images that were taken in landscape. I would like the landscape images to show in landscape and have the portrait video shown in portrait. I have tried dragging the outline of the images to landscape, but that changes the video to also be in landscape. I tried seemingly all combinations of locking to try and see if I could re-size one item on the timeline and not have it affect everything else on the timeline — to no avail. I tried removing clips to a different timeline, but that didn’t seem to work.


I saw a YouTube video where the poster selected one clip and resized it and it did not affect the other clips, so he got his video to show a portion in landscape and a portion in portrait in about 3 seconds. I can’t seem to duplicate that…but I think it may be possible.


I’ve searched around and couldn’t find much on this…which leads me to believe maybe it’s simple and no one else got stumped like me (or it’s impossible).


Thanks in advance for any insight!

iPad Pro (M4, 2024)

Posted on Jul 7, 2024 1:13 PM

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Jul 8, 2024 11:54 AM in response to CoolCapybara

You have your project be vertical.

If your project is vertical, and you add a landscape image, it will leave empty space above and below, something like this:

If you want the image to fill the screen, you have to scale it up to fill, in which case of course you crop part of the image on the sides.


This is easy enough:


Crop and reframe clips in Final Cut Pro for iPad - Apple Support


Jul 8, 2024 9:01 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Thanks so much for your reply. I have an image that was taken in landscape, and a video that was taken in portrait. I would like for them to be on the same timeline and have the video show the image in landscape (filling the whole screen), and the video in portrait. I tried what you suggested, but got the same result that I had before.


To elaborate a bit, the landscape images are not showing "sideways" in a portrait mode, they are showing up in landscape position but with the width being constrained by the width of the portrait space. Basically, the landscape images don't fill the entire screen...they only fill the middle part of the portrait space (i.e., the images are shown much smaller)...however, they are sitting in proper landscape position. Rotating the images so that they are sideways, but occupying the entire portrait space is not what I am after.


What I can do is drag the perimeter of the landscape image so that it fills the whole screen. That will work so that the landscape image is now fully displayed...however that then makes the video that is in portrait also get "stretched" to fill the whole screen (and I would like to avoid that).


I saw a youtube video where someone had two videos...one was shot in portrait and one was shot in landscape. He then just selected the clip shot in landscape and stretched the perimeter of the video to fill the screen (instead of being constrained by the portrait/vertical "box") and that seemed to work immediately...with the video showing the first clip in portrait and the second one in landscape (taking up the whole screen). So it seems like this can be done...but I'm not sure.


Thanks for any additional insight!

Jul 8, 2024 12:05 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Thanks for your help. But this is exactly what I've been doing. The image is starting out exactly as depicted in your picture. I can resize the image to fill the screen exactly as described in the link you sent. The problem is that when I do this, it also changes the video that was in portrait mode (i.e., the portrait video is also being resized in the same way). I am trying to preserve the portrait video as-is and have only the images re-sized to fill the screen.

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