Edit vertical videos in iMovie

Tap on the clip -once you’ve imported it. And on the top right, you can select that magnifying glass with a plus. Then, it allows you to pinch -zoom in or pinch out to resize to the image size you like.

I used iMovie to edit my vertical clip sideways to fill the 16:9 ratio and then saved the sideways clip to my desktop, opened the file with Quicktime Player and in the edit tab you can find options for rotating as needed.

Thanks to GeeD! 🙂

Thank you! May be you know how to resize titles on iphone in imovie?

They are too large on vertical videos;(

Reasons to have vertical video. Snapchat, Instagram, and ... nevermind. You’re obviously a Hollywood Star so these things must not concern you...

To rotate it back to vertical, select it in the time line, click on the crop button in the tool bar at the top of your screen, and use the rotating feature to make it vertical.

So this is a Quicktime Pro not just a Quicktime Player? Guess I will have to try handbrake. Are there any other programs (free preferable) you would recommend for vertical video editing.

I've got it all fixed in iMovie like you said (great tip), but definitely need a way to rotate the video back to vertical now that all my editing is done. Gracias!

No. iMovie 10 only works in 16:9 aspect ratio. You need Final Cut Pro to work in arbitrary ratios. I don't know about iMovie for IOS.

You could rotate the video onto its side after putting it into the timeline and edit that, though you would not be able to use any titles. After exporting to file you can rotate back using Quicktime Player, Handbrake or similar. This is what is suggested in: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/help-editing-vertical-iphone-video-on-imovie -for-mac-aspect-ratio-problem.1938179/ (The embedded video is hilarious 😁 though I'm not suggesting that vertical video is a silly as it tries to make out!)

Geoff.

But I would have to do that in iMovie on a Mac, right? I've been doing the bulk of my editing on an iPad mini. Don't have easy access to Mac, but will try this. Thanks for the suggestion!

There are many program allows you to change the video display angel so that you can get the correct angel for better viewing and editing.

Please don't video vertically

Thanks!

You’re suggesting uploading horizontal video to snapchat?

Thanks man!