whole pic not showing

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Kves13 Author

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whole pic not showing

I added pictures to iMovie, but they aren't showing the whole picture. How do I get the whole picture to show?

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Jul 10, 2017 9:32 AM

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Answer 1

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GeeD

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Jul 10, 2017 12:03 PM in response to Kves13

Ah. Sorry - the preferences setting only applies to new clips that are imported. To change the setting for pictures already in the timeline you need to select the picture(s) then click on the crop tool and select Style to "Fit":

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Kves13 Author

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Jul 10, 2017 11:40 AM in response to GeeD

I see where I can change it to Fit, but it's not doing anything to the pictures, nothing happens, it just stays the same. I tried exiting out of iMovie and going back in, but nothing...thoughts?

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GeeD

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Jul 10, 2017 11:28 AM in response to Kves13

You probably have iMovie preferences "Photo Placement" set to "Crop to fill" and you picture aspect ratio is not 16:9. If you change this to "Fit" the whole photo will be visible but there will be black borders.

(After doing this you can if you want use the crop or ken burns tools to select any 16:9 part of your picture to fill the screen rather than the central part.)

Geoff.

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Kves13 Author

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Jul 11, 2017 7:09 AM in response to GeeD

That did it, thanks!!!

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