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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)
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
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
I just figured this out with iMovie, but on an iPhone. On the edit page click the movie film strip so it highlights. On the bottom, you will see options like scissors (cut, delete, etc). Up next to the image that shows your video preview, there is a magnifying glass; when you touch that you can pinch or spread your fingers to adjust the zoom of your video. I pinched in to make the video smaller and my children's heads were able to be seen. Hope this helps.
If you choose File>Share>File can you select SD 854 x 480 from the Sixe drop down menu?
Matt
I don't see where I am to change that. Can you give me more instructions? I don't see anything that says pillar.
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.
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
Do you also know how to export it as a 4:3 file?
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:
What is the resolution of your original footage?
You can't really increase the resolution of footage that doesn't have it to begin with.
Matt
It's a 640x480 file, but iMovie doesn't have that option when I go to export. The clip's going on Youtube, and if you watch it on a 4:3 monitor, expect to see windowboxing. I don't want that.
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
I don't want black bars. Sorry.
No apologile to me is necessary.
Matt
I don't want black bars. And this image may help:
See, no 640x480 export.
iMovie crops the heads off
