This is a game changer. The hoops I was having to jump through to edit vertical videos was about to drive me away from iMovie altogether. This workflow is already making my life easier. Thanks for sharing!
@@MacVideoMagic you are very welcome, you deserve way more than that because your videos help so many of us who’ve been using iMovie for years but didn’t know these things. 🙏
I have been a 100% behind the scenes RUclips watcher for the better part of a decade, but I had to break my silence to give you kudos on this video. There may be others explaining this, but the interwebs landed me here to find a solution to a problem that has plagued me for years. And it came at the perfect time. THANK YOU!
Another tip: the export method (export file) in this clip generates a low quality movie when working with HQ footage (ie 4k). choose "app preview" to get the original quality, it will generate a MP4 too.
This was an enormous help to me as I prepared my first vertical video. There are always plenty of how-to videos to be found on online, but in my experience, few are as simple, clear, and thorough as this. Many thanks, Mike. Subscribed! Keep up the great work.
This video is perfection...finally found a tutorial on youtube that actually worked for me lol. And you were clear, concise, and didn't skip over anything. Kudos, sir!
Complete game changer! Thank you! I've spent all evening trying to look at solutions to turning my landscape RUclips clips into TikTok verticals and this worked so easy.
Why Apple has not added this to the "Create New" popup menu is beyond me. It's like they just put iMovie on a shelf 5 years ago and forgot about it. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Thank you for all the iMovie power tips! You can also use a vertical size image instead of movie to start it off in the right shape - I have a “shorts template” image file saved to quickly drag in whenever I’m doing this.
For anyone else wondering this, you can even remove the vertical video in the beginning and it'll preserve the frame size! So for me I just dumped in any vertical video from my phone, then removed it after I saw it had correctly setup the orientation for a vertical video and continued editing the footage I had that was landscape. Worked an absolute charm, thank you!!!
Michael thank you so much. It's creators like yourself that inspired me to start creating content and things that I'm good at and sharing those skills here on RUclips.
I make 4 shorts every week from our church service and all that flippity flipping was making me crazy! What a find! I'm definitely a subscriber to your channel! Thank you!
Thank you! This 54 yo learning new things... you have excellent explanations and you've guided me to make my first TikTok for my furbaby & my purrbaby. Subscribed! I think you are going to be a big part in my journey.
YES. I knew there had to be an easier way. Thank-you!! (P.S. It's so funny to think that just a few years ago, vertical filming was looked down upon -- and now we're all scrambling to do it.)
This was a HUGE help for me. There seem to be so many tutorials with ways to do this, but your video is the BEST one. Your way is much easier, I didn't lose out on video quality, and worked perfectly. THANK YOU!
I like the way you show and explain each and every step, without assuming any foreknowledge of software specifics on the viewer’s part. This is what I need.
To say that you saved my day would be the understatement of the decade. Thank you for such an instructive and well crafted tutorial. And you have a broadcasting voice to kill for!!
Your following is well-deserved as are the likes and views on this video. Your tutorial was very thorough yet succinct enough not to be too long. Thanks so much for sharing how to make vertical format videos with us!
This is such great news! I made a vertical using your old system and was very pleased but THIS is even better news. Thank you for all your work for your subscribers.
I have been looking for a video with this particular subject and I have to tell you. This is the BEST explanation of all RUclips, simple,clear and understandable. Thank you so much 🎉🎉🎉❤❤
THANK YOU! As a photographer (definitely not a videographer), I've been incredibly frustrated by the way Instagram now gives preference to reels almost exclusively. Engagement for still photos has fallen off a cliff-bad news for a professional photographer like me. The Ken Burns effect is great for showcasing still photos, and no other amateur video editor I've found does the Ken Burns effect as easily as iMovie-but I've been stuck trying to make vertical reels using the old-school horizontal format. Not ideal, to say the least. This tutorial is a huge, huge help. Thank you!
Excellent! I've watched a handful of your videos now and they have helped me immensely in learning to make videos for my channel. With the clear and concise instruction I always finish ready to take on a new skill. I'll now be adding RUclips shorts to my repertoire thanks to this one.
Brilliant! I too was going crazy trying to figure out how to share a vertical video that contained a vertical image. These tips solved the problem - thanks!
Thank you so much for this video! I have been driving myself crazy trying to figure out how to make a horizontal into a vertical. I shoot 100% in landscape mode and making shorts has been a nightmare! But your method worked perfectly and I finally have a short that was so much easier than the crazy work around I have been doing! Thank you again!! You just earned me as a subscriber!
I literally refer back to this video each time I create a short, just to be sure I followed every step! Thank you for this effective, yet simple detailed tutorial :)
I can't be more grateful I've always been wanting to upload shorts but I just never knew how can I thank you so so much for this it's gonna change my YT channel life now
Thank you so much! The App Preview tip is crucial. In Apple Support they tell you that starting any Project with a vertical video will cause the exported file to be vertical, but that is false. Your App Preview trick seems to be the key 😀
This is genius! Thank you for sharing this feature as well as other capabilities within this mode. I love your teaching style as well- starting with a “problem” and running through the solution- your tips and features in the second half were enjoyable to watch!
Thanks! Came across your channel a month ago. Then lost it! I started a channel basically for myself and did not want to spend money on apps and gadgets. I knew I have enough with Mac and IPhone. Today I was looking for this video exactly and you popped up! I appreciate you Thanks! You now have a new sub!
I am soooo happy I found this video, although it took a long time to find it. You explained everything I needed to know and more. Thank you so much, it is very clear and helpful.
did a collaborative project for a colleague's retirement and forgot to tell people to film in landscape so I ended up with a bunch of vertical clips. At first I thought I would have to go back and re-film so this was a time saving miracle, thank you!!
This is incredible!!! Exactly the functionality I have been looking for. It’s really awesome to be able to use the Ken Burns effect to slowly pan and keep the moving subject on the middle. Just repurposed a long form video for TikTok with this information.
OMG I CANNOT believe I've finally found out how to edit vertical videos in imovie!! THANK YOU! I have been struggling for months with tiny little editing tool apps which take an age and are just totally inaccessible for someone with limited fine motor skills. I am already familiar with imovie and did not know this was possible. Is it too crass to say you just saved my life!!! lol I am Deliriously happy right now!! 🥰🤪🤩
Thanks for saving me a ton of time and energy in learning how to convert horizontal videos to vertical ones. This video is invaluable! Excellent job of explaining this awesome iMovie hack.
this is the second time I am looking for help with how to do something on iMovie....and you come up clutch, will be checking your channel first from now on
Thanks a lot!!! The only video (and article) I found on how to work with vertical videos in iMovie, that really works! Most of the others say is not possible, or give sketchy or inefficient workarounds!
Wow - thank you! I've been editing my vertical videos in iMovie using your other method (which is still genius) until now - but how cool that I can do it this way, and add horizontal clips into the mix! This is so helpful - and, as always, thank you for being such a great teacher! You make everything so clear and do-able. :-D
OMG i literally just learned how to make shorts from my existing content yesterday - and i was doing the whole export and flip thing. I am trying this way TODAY to see if it speeds up the process on making the shorts but this is amazing! i didn't even know that was an option in iMovie and thought i was going to have to buy Final Cut or something to do this :) grateful i stumbled across you!
FYI, App Preview currently exports at a maximum of 1080p @ 30 fps.
So I cant export a vertical video to 1080p x 1920p?
@@ivaroliversen41 did it work...? about to try it...
just worked for me! thx again!!! 🥳 took a few seconds for the short in the link to confirm it! xo
This is a game changer. The hoops I was having to jump through to edit vertical videos was about to drive me away from iMovie altogether. This workflow is already making my life easier. Thanks for sharing!
dude didnt even heart your comment
Apologies, missed this comment. 😅 Thank you for the Super Thanks! Glad you’re putting the method to good use. It’s how I make all my Shorts.
same!!! holy god what a gamechanger.
Thank you. Your content is so valuable and presented concisely. It is very much appreciated.
I appreciate that! And thank you for the SuperThanks!
@@MacVideoMagic you are very welcome, you deserve way more than that because your videos help so many of us who’ve been using iMovie for years but didn’t know these things. 🙏
Trying to create vertical videos has been driving me crazy for ages.... Thank you so much for posting this, it's changed my life!
Glad it helped!
This did not work for me - dragged vertical footage in first, but the horizontal footage just resets itself once I drop it in. Any other tips here?
I have been a 100% behind the scenes RUclips watcher for the better part of a decade, but I had to break my silence to give you kudos on this video. There may be others explaining this, but the interwebs landed me here to find a solution to a problem that has plagued me for years. And it came at the perfect time. THANK YOU!
Michael, thank you! WOW! This may be just the trick to push me toward creating shorts for RUclips. This feature is literally a game changer.
Another tip: the export method (export file) in this clip generates a low quality movie when working with HQ footage (ie 4k). choose "app preview" to get the original quality, it will generate a MP4 too.
Great tip, thanks!
Thank you!
great tip, works fine. thank you too!
Great tip! Thank you!
even export in app preview it still gives 1080 not 4K even though my original file is in 4K 60 ..... or am i missing something !! Alok
This was an enormous help to me as I prepared my first vertical video. There are always plenty of how-to videos to be found on online, but in my experience, few are as simple, clear, and thorough as this. Many thanks, Mike. Subscribed! Keep up the great work.
Absolutely one of the best learning clips on RUclips. Thank you Mike, your the best ! Truly enjoy every video you produce.
Agreed!! Excellent
This video is perfection...finally found a tutorial on youtube that actually worked for me lol. And you were clear, concise, and didn't skip over anything. Kudos, sir!
FANTASTIC video! This was not only easy and FAST to follow, it made my vertical video project successful!! You're a genius!!!
Complete game changer! Thank you! I've spent all evening trying to look at solutions to turning my landscape RUclips clips into TikTok verticals and this worked so easy.
Happy to discover this, exactly the question I had, explained perfectly. So - happy to subscribe.
Thanks for the Super Thanks!
Why Apple has not added this to the "Create New" popup menu is beyond me. It's like they just put iMovie on a shelf 5 years ago and forgot about it. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
So true!
Agreed. And again thanks so much!
This is the perfect RUclips tutorial. Helpful, straight to the point, no fluff, just perfect suggestions. Worked like a charm, thank you so much!
Thank you for all the iMovie power tips! You can also use a vertical size image instead of movie to start it off in the right shape - I have a “shorts template” image file saved to quickly drag in whenever I’m doing this.
Great tip!
@@MacVideoMagic Can you tell me where can I download an image right to be used?
Thanks SO much for this vid... the combined vertical/horizontal clip formatting issue within iMovie was driving me nuts!
Thank you! Glad I could help.
For anyone else wondering this, you can even remove the vertical video in the beginning and it'll preserve the frame size! So for me I just dumped in any vertical video from my phone, then removed it after I saw it had correctly setup the orientation for a vertical video and continued editing the footage I had that was landscape. Worked an absolute charm, thank you!!!
why it doesn't work for me? my I movie keeps landscape format even when I am uploading first vid from iphone
You are so crystal clear and have the most calm voice that says: "It's all ok and will work this time! I've got you!" Thank you!
Love your description! ❤ Thank you for the kind words, glad I could help.
My sentiments exactly!!
Michael thank you so much. It's creators like yourself that inspired me to start creating content and things that I'm good at and sharing those skills here on RUclips.
Fantastic!
I make 4 shorts every week from our church service and all that flippity flipping was making me crazy! What a find! I'm definitely a subscriber to your channel! Thank you!
Thank you! This 54 yo learning new things... you have excellent explanations and you've guided me to make my first TikTok for my furbaby & my purrbaby. Subscribed! I think you are going to be a big part in my journey.
YES. I knew there had to be an easier way. Thank-you!! (P.S. It's so funny to think that just a few years ago, vertical filming was looked down upon -- and now we're all scrambling to do it.)
This was a HUGE help for me. There seem to be so many tutorials with ways to do this, but your video is the BEST one. Your way is much easier, I didn't lose out on video quality, and worked perfectly. THANK YOU!
This was really helpful - thank you!
Thank you! 🙂
Thanks for the vertical magic!!!
Thanks for the SuperThanks!
OMG you just saved my life, working on a grant for a community organization and needed to edit together their IG reels and stories! Perfect.
Thank you! This is EXACTLY what I needed! Subscribing!
I like the way you show and explain each and every step, without assuming any foreknowledge of software specifics on the viewer’s part. This is what I need.
To say that you saved my day would be the understatement of the decade. Thank you for such an instructive and well crafted tutorial. And you have a broadcasting voice to kill for!!
Too kind!
You are a wizard! And now I feel a relief that I can still use iMovie for my videos. Thank you a million times!
Your following is well-deserved as are the likes and views on this video. Your tutorial was very thorough yet succinct enough not to be too long. Thanks so much for sharing how to make vertical format videos with us!
BIG Thank You!
This is brilliant! Thanks. I was going crazy trying to figure out how to do this.
This is such great news! I made a vertical using your old system and was very pleased but THIS is even better news. Thank you for all your work for your subscribers.
I have been looking for a video with this particular subject and I have to tell you. This is the BEST explanation of all RUclips, simple,clear and understandable. Thank you so much 🎉🎉🎉❤❤
Great video. Looked at other "how to vertical video on iMovie" tutorials and yours was definitely the best. Mahalo Michael!
Thanks so much! This will make uploading my shorts way easier!
Unreal that someone actually made this content for us. So needed!!! Muchos Gracias
Nailed it. This video wastes no time, and teaches all and then some. Thank you!
This is off the chain. Brilliant simple break down, TOP MAN !!!!
Dude, I love you. I've spent an embarrassing amount of time agonizing over this, unsuccessfully fighting with this, etc. Thank you so much.
Glad I could help!
THANK YOU! As a photographer (definitely not a videographer), I've been incredibly frustrated by the way Instagram now gives preference to reels almost exclusively. Engagement for still photos has fallen off a cliff-bad news for a professional photographer like me. The Ken Burns effect is great for showcasing still photos, and no other amateur video editor I've found does the Ken Burns effect as easily as iMovie-but I've been stuck trying to make vertical reels using the old-school horizontal format. Not ideal, to say the least. This tutorial is a huge, huge help. Thank you!
You absolute legend. The HOOPS I have had to jump through to do such a simple thing. Thank you.
You are awesome! I was struggling while making reels videos in IMovie and you literally saved my life ㅠㅠ thanks a lot!
Excellent! I've watched a handful of your videos now and they have helped me immensely in learning to make videos for my channel. With the clear and concise instruction I always finish ready to take on a new skill. I'll now be adding RUclips shorts to my repertoire thanks to this one.
Brilliant! I too was going crazy trying to figure out how to share a vertical video that contained a vertical image. These tips solved the problem - thanks!
Hands down one of the best tutorials I have ever come across. Thank you! Subbed!
Thank you, finally after all these years. Now I know how to do this. Great explanation!
this was so helpful, so great, definitely keeps me from downloading a bunch of different apps just to edit videos, thank you!
Incredible. I'm so glad you know so much! I don't even know what I need until I watch your videos!! THANK YOU
Everything I was looking for in a pleasant and concise presentation. Thanks once again Mac Video Magic.
Thank you so much for this video! I have been driving myself crazy trying to figure out how to make a horizontal into a vertical. I shoot 100% in landscape mode and making shorts has been a nightmare! But your method worked perfectly and I finally have a short that was so much easier than the crazy work around I have been doing! Thank you again!! You just earned me as a subscriber!
Michael, this video was posted by you one month ago to save my life TODAY! Thanks, man!
I literally refer back to this video each time I create a short, just to be sure I followed every step! Thank you for this effective, yet simple detailed tutorial :)
Glad it helped!
I can't be more grateful I've always been wanting to upload shorts but I just never knew how can I thank you so so much for this it's gonna change my YT channel life now
Glad I could help!
Thank you for this!! The only guy who gets to the point and makes sense! 👍👊👌😎
Simple and easy without fluff. You're exceptional at explaining things.
Wow, thank you!
You have saved me so much time. I wish your video was the top of Google search results!!
Thank you so much! The App Preview tip is crucial. In Apple Support they tell you that starting any Project with a vertical video will cause the exported file to be vertical, but that is false. Your App Preview trick seems to be the key 😀
Whoa! This is great! You are so calm! I love how you present the material. Really great!
Thank you so much! I spent 3 days trying to make my already vertical canva poster into a vertical video and you just explained it in 6 minutes!
This is genius! Thank you for sharing this feature as well as other capabilities within this mode. I love your teaching style as well- starting with a “problem” and running through the solution- your tips and features in the second half were enjoyable to watch!
You, sir, are a king of kings. Thank you so much! Fantastic presentation in front of the camera too.
Doing the Lord's work with this video. You've saved me from using less user-friendly editing apps. Thank you!
Thanks! Came across your channel a month ago. Then lost it! I started a channel basically for myself and did not want to spend money on apps and gadgets. I knew I have enough with Mac and IPhone.
Today I was looking for this video exactly and you popped up!
I appreciate you
Thanks!
You now have a new sub!
I am soooo happy I found this video, although it took a long time to find it. You explained everything I needed to know and more. Thank you so much, it is very clear and helpful.
did a collaborative project for a colleague's retirement and forgot to tell people to film in landscape so I ended up with a bunch of vertical clips. At first I thought I would have to go back and re-film so this was a time saving miracle, thank you!!
This is incredible!!! Exactly the functionality I have been looking for. It’s really awesome to be able to use the Ken Burns effect to slowly pan and keep the moving subject on the middle. Just repurposed a long form video for TikTok with this information.
Great to hear!
That sounds complicated, and maybe time consuming. I was thinking of trying that, but I thought it would be too much. Was it?
Excellent! Thank you!
This might be the first true hack youtube video that works flawlessly that I never would have thought of on my own. Thank you!
OMG I CANNOT believe I've finally found out how to edit vertical videos in imovie!! THANK YOU! I have been struggling for months with tiny little editing tool apps which take an age and are just totally inaccessible for someone with limited fine motor skills. I am already familiar with imovie and did not know this was possible. Is it too crass to say you just saved my life!!! lol I am Deliriously happy right now!! 🥰🤪🤩
Thanks for saving me a ton of time and energy in learning how to convert horizontal videos to vertical ones. This video is invaluable! Excellent job of explaining this awesome iMovie hack.
Awesome hack... Thanks!
Thank you for the SuperThanks, Elie!
This is the only way that works properly. Thank you so much for posting!!
Thank you, thank you! Short, concise, no meaningless fluff. Was able to do my vertical video quickly and easily! Thank you!
this is the second time I am looking for help with how to do something on iMovie....and you come up clutch, will be checking your channel first from now on
Wow! This was so helpful. I'm on an old version of Imovie and everything you showed worked! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot!!! The only video (and article) I found on how to work with vertical videos in iMovie, that really works! Most of the others say is not possible, or give sketchy or inefficient workarounds!
Great video - super helpful. I used this to make some vertical video ads immediately after watching. Thanks!
So well presented. Clean , simple, and to the point. You also have a great authoritative voice. Thumbs up and Subscribed! Thank you! 😃
I love this guy, he taught me how to do easy but fancy stuff
I watched 3 videos figuring out how to do it right... and only your's was helpful. Thanks!
This is so useful and explained in the most clear and simple way. Thank you so much !
Exactly what I needed. Quick and to the point, thanks!
Woo hoo! Just found this one Michael, this will make my life much easier creating shorts from horizontal video. Thank you!
Awesome, awesome, awesome. I'm a veteran iMovie user and I had no idea you could do this. Thank you one million times.
Wow - thank you! I've been editing my vertical videos in iMovie using your other method (which is still genius) until now - but how cool that I can do it this way, and add horizontal clips into the mix! This is so helpful - and, as always, thank you for being such a great teacher! You make everything so clear and do-able. :-D
Happy to help!
Amazing! I was told this couldn't be done. You proved that wrong. 10/10 Subscribed!
Much appreciated Michael. This has finally given me a way of editing shorts for my channel.
OMG i literally just learned how to make shorts from my existing content yesterday - and i was doing the whole export and flip thing.
I am trying this way TODAY to see if it speeds up the process on making the shorts but this is amazing! i didn't even know that was an option in iMovie and thought i was going to have to buy Final Cut or something to do this :) grateful i stumbled across you!
Dude, you. are. aweosme. Your presentation, your step by step guiding. You are a master at this. Love it.
Great video! Exactly what I was looking for. Love how clear the steps are.
You are such a concise and clear teacher. Thank you!
you are the only person that I found showing how to do this I totally gave you a like!!!!!
Thanks!
Thank you so much?
Man that was an awesome tutorial Mike, appreciate you. Nice to know when I want to make a quick vertical video.
Boom this was great, always wanted just the simple way to go landscape to vertical in iMovie, thanks for making this
My go-to video for making vertical videos in iMovie.
Thanks a lot!
Excellent video! Very clear and articulate! Thank you!