I need to make a squatty clip appear vertically stretched and thinner...I believe changing aspect ratio only adds black bars to the clip but doesn't actually 'stretch' (ie contort) it...any ideas? It's a full clip, not a photo...
iMovie 10, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Hi,
Changing the aspect ratio by decreasing the horizontal value will contort the clip to elongate (make thinner) the display, but you are right that you will be left with a black bar on each side. Once the aspect ratio has been changed to contort the clip, you can put it in your timeline and use the "crop to fit" feature to remove the black bars, as Jim suggests. However, that would zoom in on the clip and crop out some of the video that is being displayed.
-- Rich
Thanks Rich and Jim,
I don't see where I'm able to change just the horizontal value? All the crop tools I see (as well as PiP, cutaway, etc) keep the image in the standard 16:9 rectangle, not allowing the image to stretch. I understand this is probably a default to help people from 'squishing' images, but its frustrating when I *do* need to 'squish' an image! Are you aware of other apps (handbrake? streamclip? vlc?) that would allow me to distort a clip that I could import back into iMovie?
Select the clip and in the tool bar choose the crop button. Select fit. If that does' give you what you want then select crop to fill and adjust as you like.
Both Streamclip and Handbrake will let you do that.
How to vertically stretch a video clip?
