3:2 iPhone aspect ratio?

And as I said already, it IS in project properties in iMovie '09. 🙂

If I could post screen shots, I'd show you.

Regardless, even if the share menu DID say something like "export with a 3:2 ratio" how exactly would it let you choose what gets cropped?

To expand the subject... we should be able to set any aspect ratio... If I wanted to shoot a completely square 1:1 aspect ratio movie, well, I should be able to.


Very similar question here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11994699&#11994699

I sort of half understand that. 🙂

Let me frame the question better.

I need to take "screencasts" (using quicktime to record the screen, usually) of the iPhone simulator for product demos. So I need to crop the resulting movie to fit the content of the simulator on screen exactly.

As recorded, it's a 3:2 ratio. 960x480 (for the iPhone 4 emulator).
Doing a simple crop in iMovie always gives me a box that does not fit.

The previous iMovie had a 3:2 ratio that was selectable next to 16:9 and 4:3.
It made a crop box that would fit a recorded iPhone screen perfectly.

Maybe I need to find a different way of doing this...

So, this is a nutty solution, but I've messed with it before, so it was the first place I went...

iMove projects are serialized to plists.
I converted the saved binary plists to xml using "plutil -convert xml1 <filename>"
It's pretty easy to find the spot in the plist where the aspect ratio is stored and change it to 1.5
(looks like <real>1.5</real>)

AFTER I did that and loaded iMovie again, the project properties SHOW "iPhone (3:2)" for the aspect ratio of that project!!!!

Not for new projects... but it's a start.

I actually look at the nibs for iMovie as well and the 3:2 ratio stuff is still in there... it's just hard to place what piece is disabling it.

As a short term workaround, this works for me... but it would be great to see Apple add back 3:2 support and perhaps support for custom aspect ratios in iMovie.