HyperionNexus
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Q: Can I adjust the size of a picture to any size?

I'm trying to censor a small area of a video (for a duration) with a "censor bar" picture by putting it on top of the duration I need. However, when I try to adjust the size it adjusts the whole picture to make sure it stays the same aspect ratio. I do not want that and want my own custom size. Is there a way to do this? Or at least a way to stack multiple pictures on top of a clip at once?

 

I'm basically doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O8yRuA6W4I

but with a black box covering a section of a chat box that is a different size and not just a screenshot of the part I need covered.

 

iMovie version: 10.0.6

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 5, 2016 4:23 PM

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Q: Can I adjust the size of a picture to any size?

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  • by Rich839,

    Rich839 Rich839 Sep 5, 2016 6:51 PM in response to HyperionNexus
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    Sep 5, 2016 6:51 PM in response to HyperionNexus

    I thank you can accomplish the black bar censor that the You Tube vid depicted by taking a screen shot of a black background outlined in the approximate shape of the black bar that you need.  (In other words, put a black background into your timeline, do a command-shift-4 on the preview screen of it, and outline with the little cross hairs the shape of the black bar that you want.)  Take your screen shot of that, and then put it into your clip with Picture in Picture, and adjust its size and position to fit the area that you want to cover.   It won't follow a moving image, however.   The portion of the image that you are covering will need to be fairly stationary.