Excellent Gary. Thank you. I’ll never understand why we have to jump thru hoops on Macs to do such simple things. This should be part of Quick Time (or iMovie), not Photos, as I would never logically expect to do it there.
I absolutely agree. I could not figure out how to do that and some videos that I have watched did not provide this response to me, but this one did! Thank you so much!! And also, I don't understand why iMovie does not get enhanced with such features, I find it a brilliant and easy to use product, but a few new perks there would definitely not hurt :)
It used to be able to be done in QuickTime back in the days of QuickTime 7 Pro. I miss the functionality we lost in the versions after that so much. Exporting tracks. Copy and pasting tracks. Easy copying and pasting. We used to have all of that functionality and it was removed.
Very useful! I edited some videos in the past with iMovie where I cropped out corners. The result looked slightly zoomed in but I thought I was imagining it. Now I know I wasn't. Thanks Gary!
Brilliant! Thank you so much. The lack (and mislabelling) of this obvious feature from iMovie has driven me nuts for years. Why it's missing after all this time is crazy. Great workaround.
Thanks. Much better than the alternative that I came up with. Open QT in Quicktime then use Quicktime to do a screen recording on part of the playback.
Gary, you're a champ. It's shameful that we had to wait almost two DECADES for this functionality on MacOS after they took it out of QuickTime 7 Pro after 2005.
Thank you so much for the actually HELPFUL and quick video. I never knew that you could crop or edit videos from your macbook using the photos app. Will save me lots of time in the future. Again, thanks a lot Gary!
This is important to know. Eventually I will need this feature, and I will try to remember to Thank you again. 🙂 Thanks for finding and sharing this gem.
Great, fast. Thanks. Hard to believe Apple's iPhone and Mac product lines are STILL stuck with iLife 09's landscape-only video editing, barring this shoe horn. Do they know customers no longer edit video to "Burn DVD..."
Thanks for helping to keep our Macs clean by using what we already have installed! Who needs those 3rd Party apps junking up our nice machines anyways!!
@@mfh9780 Oh, I see. I didn't get that from the way you worded your question. I know that 1080x1920 videos work, but I assume other 9:16 sizes will as well.
If that is the case, then the compression on the original was probably excellent. The new one just has some basic compression. Note that .mov files usually contain h264 "mpeg" files. Don't confuse the file extension (.mov) with the format of the data inside it (MPEG, for example).
Just now I cropped a screenrecorded video on my mac in Photos app. I usually airdrop it to iPhone or iPad and cropping it there because cropping option in Mac's Photos app is not straight forward.
Hey, what if the video is gigabytes in size and I don't want to have it start downloading to my iPhone with little storage left? That's why I'm worried adding the video to Photos on my Macbook
You could always just crop it in iMovie I suppose. You can also create a temporary second Photos library to use for this, or change the import settings in Photos for this one-time import so it doesn't go to iCloud.
@@theyaghu That shows you a record of your imports. So when you import a photo from a file, or from an sd card, that section is a handy way to just see the history of that.
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Excellent Gary. Thank you. I’ll never understand why we have to jump thru hoops on Macs to do such simple things. This should be part of Quick Time (or iMovie), not Photos, as I would never logically expect to do it there.
LOL yeah. I have a love/hate relationship with Apple because of things like this.
I absolutely agree. I could not figure out how to do that and some videos that I have watched did not provide this response to me, but this one did! Thank you so much!! And also, I don't understand why iMovie does not get enhanced with such features, I find it a brilliant and easy to use product, but a few new perks there would definitely not hurt :)
It used to be able to be done in QuickTime back in the days of QuickTime 7 Pro. I miss the functionality we lost in the versions after that so much. Exporting tracks. Copy and pasting tracks. Easy copying and pasting. We used to have all of that functionality and it was removed.
Very useful! I edited some videos in the past with iMovie where I cropped out corners. The result looked slightly zoomed in but I thought I was imagining it. Now I know I wasn't. Thanks Gary!
I learn something new every day with you Gary, George Rubin
Not only great for cropping but also does a good job of adjusting color/hue, etc in difficult videos (such as underwater videos). Thanks so much.
YOU SAVED SO MANY STEPS FOR ME!!! THANK YOU!! MERCI!!!
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Excellent! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️
Yup I watch his content religiously like a soap opera
Brilliant! Thank you so much. The lack (and mislabelling) of this obvious feature from iMovie has driven me nuts for years. Why it's missing after all this time is crazy. Great workaround.
Thanks. Much better than the alternative that I came up with. Open QT in Quicktime then use Quicktime to do a screen recording on part of the playback.
That greatly reduces the quality of the video. You are making a recording of a recording.
I tried all the wrong methods and found you. Bless you!
I've learnt how to trim a video in Quicktime (what I was interested in for a while) and got to see Gary without his baseball cap. Totally worth it! 😉
Gary, you're a champ. It's shameful that we had to wait almost two DECADES for this functionality on MacOS after they took it out of QuickTime 7 Pro after 2005.
Thank you so much for the actually HELPFUL and quick video. I never knew that you could crop or edit videos from your macbook using the photos app. Will save me lots of time in the future. Again, thanks a lot Gary!
Awesome video! I totally needed to find this information and wow, what a game changer!
Thanks so much for showing this. Learnt something new.
Thanks heaps, you seem to be the only one that knows what he's talking about.
Thank you very much for this!
Thank you so much, it was right there this entire time...
Thanks. Very helpful, and easy!!
Great solution, I never thought about doing that way!
Thanks Gary, very clear and helpful.
I use this all the time in ios however never thought about it in MacOS thanks this is really helpful.
This is important to know. Eventually I will need this feature, and I will try to remember to Thank you again. 🙂 Thanks for finding and sharing this gem.
another winner
Outstanding! Easy, Peasy
Super Helpful!
That's cool! Yes, I used to do this in FCP but this is much easier
Wow! That's great. I was never happy with iMovie for cropping.
great tip! Thanks!!!
Thank you sir!
Thanks Gary, great to know!
Great! Thanks!
Nice hack! I will be using this technique for sure...thanks!
Great, fast. Thanks. Hard to believe Apple's iPhone and Mac product lines are STILL stuck with iLife 09's landscape-only video editing, barring this shoe horn. Do they know customers no longer edit video to "Burn DVD..."
Thanks for helping to keep our Macs clean by using what we already have installed! Who needs those 3rd Party apps junking up our nice machines anyways!!
thank you so so much
Thanks man
Thanks!
I am so old I remember when this used to work in QuickTime.
Thank you
Super useful
Great info. What video size can I crop for a RUclips short?
Any size you like.
@@macmost I thought I read that it has to be a specific format or it won’t work for a “short”
thank you, I learn so much with your videos.
@@mfh9780 Oh, I see. I didn't get that from the way you worded your question. I know that 1080x1920 videos work, but I assume other 9:16 sizes will as well.
awesome ! thanks
Phantastic!
Export as ".mov" only? The croped one gets bigger in filesize as the original".mpeg"-file.
Servus
If that is the case, then the compression on the original was probably excellent. The new one just has some basic compression. Note that .mov files usually contain h264 "mpeg" files. Don't confuse the file extension (.mov) with the format of the data inside it (MPEG, for example).
@@macmost Vielen Dank. Thank you.
Thanks
Just now I cropped a screenrecorded video on my mac in Photos app.
I usually airdrop it to iPhone or iPad and cropping it there because cropping option in Mac's Photos app is not straight forward.
You can do this on iPad?
BRILLIANT
man made machine software OS update and latest feature is amazing Sir
Life saver
Hey, what if the video is gigabytes in size and I don't want to have it start downloading to my iPhone with little storage left? That's why I'm worried adding the video to Photos on my Macbook
You could always just crop it in iMovie I suppose. You can also create a temporary second Photos library to use for this, or change the import settings in Photos for this one-time import so it doesn't go to iCloud.
Genius
Would be cool if you could pan inside the frame.
That would be pretty advanced. You can do it with something like Final Cut Pro (or equivalent) or Motion.
My mac has the crop button but its gray and i can't click on it. What can i do other than updating?
Are you not running macOS Sonoma?
@@macmost ifk but probably not if thats kinda new, because my mac is really old
*IDK*
@@LobsterChop Yes, this was all added in Ventura I state that at 3:07.
Apple seems to have removed all editing options for video in the Photos app
Definitely still there.
what is that imports in photos ?
Not sure what you are asking.
@@macmost In photos app, there is called imports section right!! That is what I am asking
@@theyaghu That shows you a record of your imports. So when you import a photo from a file, or from an sd card, that section is a handy way to just see the history of that.
@@macmost where that photos are storage ?
@@theyaghu Usually the photos in your Photos App are stored in the Photos Library, usually in your Pictures folder.
Also its a non destructive edit!
I love that you gave the wrong wording of other video's
Very useful. Many thanks!
Thanks bunches