I cannot get the video to fit in the imove screen. It crops the heads off of people. I have tried to fix it by adjusting the center so it will chop their feet off, but that isn't working. I am taking video that I took from my camera of my my friends birthday and trying to put it in imove. It is a disaster! Can anyone help me?
iMovie '11, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
If you choose File>Share>File can you select SD 854 x 480 from the Sixe drop down menu?
Matt
It sounds like your source footage has a 4:3 aspect ration while iMovie is 16:9 so iMovie is blowing up your picture to fill the frame and cutting off the top (or bottom) of your picture.
See if my post in this thread helps.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5586908
Matt
Using the Crop tool you want to adjust the white rectangle. Grab it by it's corners and drag it large enough to include your entire image. You'll end up with black bars on the left and right side of the picture.
So instead of this:
You get this:
Matt
That didn't help. I don't want to crop any of the video I took I want the entire shot. It wants to crop all my videos and pictures. I've tried fit, crop, moing the stabilizer out of zoom, turning it off. No matter what I do I cannot get the entire shot in the frame. And forget about the ones that are sideways, when I flip them itis a disaster.
It's terrific that you have a screenshot supporting evidence that SD exports are possible, but sadly communication barriers prevent us from understanding how you did it.
There's a freeware called Handbrake, and it lets you crop videos to any size you want, pixel by pixel. See my reply in this thread: Re: No 4:3 aspect ratio option in iMovie 10.0
Download HandBrake here: https://handbrake.fr/
Here's where they talk about cropping: https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/PictureSettings
Enjoy!
Are you using the direct Share to YouTube from within iMovie?
Maybe Share your file to the Desktop then upload to YouTube.
That's the best I've got without experimenting myself. Which I'm happy to do, but can't right now.
Matt
You can convert your 640x480 video to 854x480 using MPEG Streamclip.
If you import the 854x480 movie in iMovie 10, the complete movie is available.
An example on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZKYLUsi-g8
Details for using MPEG Streamclip: http://www.squared5.com/
Open file (Cmd-O)
Export to QuickTime (Cmd-E)
Compression: Apple Intermediate Codec
Quality 100%
Frame Size: 854x480 (16:9)
Zoom: 100%, X/Y: 0.75
Make Movie
See also this picture for export settings: http://i.imgur.com/UNaKTHx.png
I had the same problem until I tried this - Select your clip, click on file, click on analyze video, click on People. Let the programme do it's work finding people in your video. Play back and you should have the original picture that you filmed.
I am also VERY interested on how to export to a 4:3 aspect ratio, but cannot find where nor how I can do it. In reference to the screenshot where there is the option to export to SD480P (640 x 480) I believe that the ORIGINAL video file was selected and NOT the edited one. When I select the imported video file and select 'Share' I do have the option (the ONLY option) to export as 640 x 480, but my changes are not included.
So it seems that the changes need to be made and the re-encoded (again) using a different program (like MPEG Streamclip) to get rid of the pillar-bars. 😟 Shame on Apple!
I don't see where I am to change that. Can you give me more instructions? I don't see anything that says pillar.
I want a 640x480 option. It's going up on Youtube, and I don't want my subscribers with 4:3 monitors to see a black border around the video like this:
I don't want black bars. And this image may help:
See, no 640x480 export.
Hi.
You can editing... and after, put it UP on the programm... This pic show this,
iMovie crops the heads off
