I’ve been using iMovie for for 10 years and today I learned to how to fix something that has ALWAYS irritated me. Thank you so much for this video!! I didn’t think there was anything else I could possibly learn about this software!
Wow, and I really thought I’d at least mastered the photo/video editing feature of iMovie. Thanks so much, I can really imagine additional editing i could have done on previous projects. You’re the best.
Excellent informational video Gary, thanks. I’ve been working on learning iMovie since I just got my first MacBook Pro for Christmas. Thanks for all your videos I’ve learned so much from them.
Thanks for posting this. I was struggling with resizing na overlay image and could not figure out you had to click the check mark and then go to picture in picture from the overlay settings. Thanks again! This was a relief.
Cool trick with the edited background image, thank you! However, I think iMovie is pretty much useless, even for basic video editing. It misses very basic options like the ability to choose a vertical 9:16 canvas rather than a 16:9 horizontal. Even the iPhone App (by Apple...) lacks the possibility to export to the same aspect ratio when a video was shot in portait mode - a video shot with the very same iPhone (by Apple...) - ridiculous. Also, no options for adding drop shadows or reflexions - something you CAN do in Pages... a word processor app.. huh?). By the way it would be awesome if you could do a tips & tricks video about Screenflow App (even if its not a first-party app) 🙃
Great. I have question please. How can I crop portion of the video using different ratio of dimensions? let me give example to make it clear. If I want to crop a subtitle only from a video.
Hi Gary, hope you are doing well. Have been meaning to ask for a long time: isn't it ok to keep my 2018 MacBook Air on charge most of the time? I am guessing that this should be good for the battery because the machine uses AC power and not the battery when plugged in. Of course, I do drain the battery to about 50% every Sunday to make sure it is healthy.
Is there a way to sample noise from the video and remove it completely like we do in audacity? bcz the remove noise feature is no that great In imovie.
There is no hidden functionality there like that. But you could always export the audio of a clip to Audacity, and then bring it in after removing the noise there.
When I have an external hard drive plugged into my MacBook Pro I can edit the files, move them, and do pretty much everything I need to except when I try to delete a file or folder it is not an option. When I right click on any file delete is not there, am I doing something wrong?
I want to crop like Camtasia. I screen captured a video from my ipad but it wasn't full screen so other things are in the background that i want to remove... my camtasia just stopped saving a couple of months ago on my mac and i tried everything to fix it but can't so i'm using imovie but it seems limited
I want to make two videos, playing 1st violin and second violin separately(when I play 2nd violin, I will follow the 1st violin). Then I want to merge these two videos together(picture in picture?). Then I can watch the last video of two violins playing at the same time.
You can't. Something has to fill the space of your video frame. You can make it a picture-in-picture with a background behind it if you want the photo to only fill a portion of a frame.
How would that work, though? The video output needs to be the same (usually 16:9 or 4:3). If you crop to something else, then what appears in the space left?
I using iMovie for the first time. I don’t find all the editing tools for the photos and my photos are cut off in the video. Where do I find the editing tools. I’m using an iPad. Thank you!
@@macmost Ok I can use the apple computer Instead of iPad but when I did and chose my photos it restored them to the original photo. I originally scanned 4 pictures per page and saved them and then cropped the 4 photos to individual photos. They look like individual photos until I drag it to the iMovie and then it appears as the 4 photos I originally scanned. Any suggestions?
@@kimmitchell3139 Try a different way of importing them into iMovie. You can use the Media browser in iMovie, or export them to the Finder with drag and drop, and then import into iMovie from there.
@@macmost So on my version of iMovie, there's only: 'fit", 'crop to fill', and 'ken burns'. fit includes the black bars. crop to fill doesn't allow you to fully control height and width. I had to send to my iPad, and crop manually there, then send back to my mac. It's really frustrating that the developers just won't give you full freedom to drop.
@@LawrenceKH Fit and Fill are the only two real options. That's because a video has to be a certain size, like 16:9. Either you have black bars or the image has to be large enough to fill both the width and height of the video frame. There is no other option, logically. Cropping it some other way like in a graphics app (why did you do that on your iPad instead of on your Mac?) just replicates either fit or fill.
How do I use this on iPhone? I don’t see a screen that looks anything like this. Where is Crop to fit? I’m trying to do a Picture in Picture, with a long rectangular picture.
iMovie looks very different on an iPhone. To crop, select the clip in the timeline and use two fingers at the top of the screen in the preview area to zoom in or out and move around.
@@macmost I’m trying to insert a long rectangular picture and it automatically cuts off the bottom and makes it Square. Is it not possible to have a picture in picture that is actually rectangular like the original picture? I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere but I’ve been trying for a long time
@@Elahnah.Reseller It is difficult to do. The best way is to use an image editor and create.a 16:9 image that is exactly what you want. Then import that.
@@Elahnah.Reseller I know this is a year old comment, but I had the same issue and came here for help. What I ended up doing is converting my picture to a video in Windows 10 and then importing that video into iMovie and it kept the whole picture. Hopefully this will help someone else.
Shame on the video editor who is guilty of committing the video atrocity of BBC (Blow-up, Blur, Crop) 4:3 aspect ratio films and video (or 4:3 films transferred to video) to fill the 16:9 frame. Doing "click to fill" may look OK on a computer screen (other than the unnaturally overly large images) but on a TV the loss of resolution is terrible. You are taking standard definition video and degrading it to substandard definition video. You are also altering/censoring the carefully composed and framed 4:3 aspect ratio images by the historical cinematographers. Leave 4:3 alone!
I don't get why it's so hard to crop a landscape video into portrait. No easy way on iMovie, no easy way on Premiere Pro. Don't get why we have all this software and it can't do the most basic edit of cropping a video in portrait mode which is pretty damn standard these days when making reel or tittok edits
Not sure what you mean. Cropping it so you have horizontal video, but with huge black bars on either side? If you are making a video for TikTok then you aren't making horizontal video though.
Absolute garbage. SO if i have an ratio 16:9 i can forget working on imovie?? hahaha Since it will automatically fill the sides. Like what?? hahaha The more i use Apple products, the more i notice how absolutely garbage they are.
Not sure what you mean. iMovie works in 16:9 normally. If you have a 4:3 image, you can choose to crop the top and bottom, or show the whole thing (with nothing on the sides), or crop it any way you like. This has nothing to do with iMovie in particular. It is a fact-of-life. It is how shapes fit together. It would be the same in any video editing app, from the most basic to the most advanced.
@@macmost What i meant is.. If i pull in a 9:16 file (recorded holding a phone upwards) iMovie will automatically force it to convert to the opposite. From 9:16 to 16:9. It automatically thinks we are wanting to make the video file widescreen. (Who made that call lol) U say it has nothing to do with iMovie, yeah right. Funny how when i put that video in Quick time it plays it without making it wide screen and without filling the sides with black. Funny how when i open it on my phone in movie player it plays it in 9:16. When i open the file in snapchat it doesn't convert it in anyway. Or when i put the file in YouCut it does not put it in widescreen mode, by putting black on the sides. But the moment i drop it in imovie booom 16:9, with black on the sides. This has to do with absolutely nothing but iMovie thinking a head. With that said i found the solution in one of ur other videos, which i truly thank you for!! Good job!! I always learn alot from you!! Thank you!! Only problem the solution is embarrassingly cryptic! 1. I have to open a new project from the menu bar. Not from the projects tab. Why?? Makes no sense.. 2. You can not use the two "templates/formats" New Movie or New Trailer, though those are the ONLY TWO iMovie offers from the start. Like what?!? hahaha 3. I have to decode the developers brain and understand to open a new project as an "app developer", to even have a chance to not change the ratio of the original file. 4. After dragging in the file to the correct template, now i have to know to render my project from the tabs menu AND NOT from the normal share button on the upper right! Since the one option that is visually represented to me on the upper right, will not give me a 4k option to render my project. 5. After all of this i have to understand to render the file in 4K tho the original video was never 4k in any step of the way. 6. I have to understand that now my aspect ratio did not change,,, but my rendered file IS NOT A 4K FILE!! Tho that is what i had to choose to keep my file 9:16 looool This process is literally the only way to take a 9:16 file from ur phone and keep it as that.. a 9:16. Maybe u originally got me wrong, but this has EVERYTHING to do with iMovie and nothing else. Its easy.. If i pull in a 9:16 I WANT TO KEEP IT AS THAT!! With that said.. Love ur content! This rant is not in anyway directed at you. I genuinely feel Apple is trying nothing more but to frustrate the users whom have the slightest bit of more wants or knowledge. Trying to force us to pay for the simplest of features, by investing in Final Cut. I say.. No thank you!
I agree with you about Apple products have a low user experience but it’s not the this guy’s fault? hahaha He’s just trying to show a solution without clickbait. So, thank the guy and stop being asshahahahole??
Do you mean stretch or zoom? You can't stretch (non-proportional). But cropping is the same thing as zoom. You crop ("crop to fill") to the area you want to take up the whole frame. Try it.
@@macmost I mean stretch (restoring the aspect ratio of a deformed video). I’m surprised there is no tutorial to teach how to complete this seemingly straightforward task.
@@yousafmehmet Ah, so it sounds like you have some video that has the wrong aspect ratio or something? iMovie can't correct that. You'll need to correct it elsewhere first. How did you get video like that?
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I’ve been using iMovie for for 10 years and today I learned to how to fix something that has ALWAYS irritated me. Thank you so much for this video!! I didn’t think there was anything else I could possibly learn about this software!
Wow, and I really thought I’d at least mastered the photo/video editing feature of iMovie. Thanks so much, I can really imagine additional editing i could have done on previous projects. You’re the best.
Excellent informational video Gary, thanks. I’ve been working on learning iMovie since I just got my first MacBook Pro for Christmas. Thanks for all your videos I’ve learned so much from them.
Top of your game, Gary. Not sure where you find the time to create all these EXCELLENT videos, however I’m glad you do!
Thanks. Well, it's my job, so I certainly find the time.😀
None of this works on iphone
Then use an actual computer
@@ozmond lately this computer has been using me
Yes but does have any options to crop in 1:1 or 9:16?
EXACTLY!!! A MAN WITH THE RIGHT QUESTION!!! @macmostvideo
Thanks for posting this. I was struggling with resizing na overlay image and could not figure out you had to click the check mark and then go to picture in picture from the overlay settings. Thanks again! This was a relief.
Cool trick with the edited background image, thank you!
However, I think iMovie is pretty much useless, even for basic video editing. It misses very basic options like the ability to choose a vertical 9:16 canvas rather than a 16:9 horizontal. Even the iPhone App (by Apple...) lacks the possibility to export to the same aspect ratio when a video was shot in portait mode - a video shot with the very same iPhone (by Apple...) - ridiculous. Also, no options for adding drop shadows or reflexions - something you CAN do in Pages... a word processor app.. huh?).
By the way it would be awesome if you could do a tips & tricks video about Screenflow App (even if its not a first-party app) 🙃
Great. I have question please. How can I crop portion of the video using different ratio of dimensions? let me give example to make it clear. If I want to crop a subtitle only from a video.
ruclips.net/video/AaEdFGwQVeo/видео.html
Hi How do you crop wihtout the arrow going diagonal...I want to crop but the arrow for cropping always go diagonal so I cant crop correctly
What can I say Gary? You're da bomb - for some reason I loathe the "black bars" and so now I have a very cool tool to use ! ! ! BIG merci.
5:03 is what I was looking for. Thanks.
A very informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️
Hi Gary, hope you are doing well. Have been meaning to ask for a long time: isn't it ok to keep my 2018 MacBook Air on charge most of the time? I am guessing that this should be good for the battery because the machine uses AC power and not the battery when plugged in. Of course, I do drain the battery to about 50% every Sunday to make sure it is healthy.
Awesome information you provided us with Gery thanks!
Is there a way to sample noise from the video and remove it completely like we do in audacity? bcz the remove noise feature is no that great In imovie.
There is no hidden functionality there like that. But you could always export the audio of a clip to Audacity, and then bring it in after removing the noise there.
Excellent video. Thank you for always being so helpful.
When I have an external hard drive plugged into my MacBook Pro I can edit the files, move them, and do pretty much everything I need to except when I try to delete a file or folder it is not an option. When I right click on any file delete is not there, am I doing something wrong?
I want to crop like Camtasia. I screen captured a video from my ipad but it wasn't full screen so other things are in the background that i want to remove... my camtasia just stopped saving a couple of months ago on my mac and i tried everything to fix it but can't so i'm using imovie but it seems limited
Just use the cropping tool like I show here. Not sure how it differs from Camtasia since I don't use it. But the result should be the same.
another winner by Gary
Thank you for your sharing. But I want to crop the video, just part of the picture and not keeping the ratio. Could you tell me how to do? Thanks.
Use the Crop tool in iMovie just like I show in this video. Not sure what you mean by "not keeping the ratio" though.
@@macmost thanks for your feedback so quick!
I want to make two videos, playing 1st violin and second violin separately(when I play 2nd violin, I will follow the 1st violin). Then I want to merge these two videos together(picture in picture?). Then I can watch the last video of two violins playing at the same time.
ruclips.net/video/fyb4BXLT0fU/видео.htmlsi=l84dHCYLfKAyQuvp
@@Bingoye Use Picture-In-Picture or Split Screen. Both are options when you place one video as an overlay on the other.
Can u crop from the sides, instead of the corners??
Not sure what you mean. If you only want to crop from one side, then just drag so it doesn't change the other aspect.
Hi Gary, may I know what are you using to record your screen while your video is also present on the lower left corner?
Thank you!
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Great video, very useful. Thank you, Gary!
How do you get to the Crop to fit page? It doesn’t give me that option.
I show that at 1:37.
Thank you for your amazing video! Really help me out!
how to crop it but not filling the whole screen, I wanna crop it for green screen but I find it hard to finish.
You can't. Something has to fill the space of your video frame. You can make it a picture-in-picture with a background behind it if you want the photo to only fill a portion of a frame.
Can't you put a pic on top of a video like a box? I want to show pics in my video but don't want to fill complete frame
Yes. Use the iMovie Cutaway choice "Picture-In-Picture."
@@macmost Thanks!
Much informative ...Thankyou
thanks a ton for doing great videos! very helpful!
This is great and very informative.. ty
But you dont seem to be able to crop into a vertical or free size..
How would that work, though? The video output needs to be the same (usually 16:9 or 4:3). If you crop to something else, then what appears in the space left?
Thanks
Thank you 🙏🏼
I using iMovie for the first time. I don’t find all the editing tools for the photos and my photos are cut off in the video. Where do I find the editing tools. I’m using an iPad.
Thank you!
Do you mean what I show in this video? It will be different on the iPad, I'm afraid.
@@macmost Ok I can use the apple computer Instead of iPad but when I did and chose my photos it restored them to the original photo. I originally scanned 4 pictures per page and saved them and then cropped the 4 photos to individual photos. They look like individual photos until I drag it to the iMovie and then it appears as the 4 photos I originally scanned. Any suggestions?
@@kimmitchell3139 Try a different way of importing them into iMovie. You can use the Media browser in iMovie, or export them to the Finder with drag and drop, and then import into iMovie from there.
why can't i fully control the crop, why are we forced to be stuck with these options? I think it used be more flexible?
Not sure what you mean. You can fully control the crop. What is it you are trying to do that is giving you trouble?
@@macmost So on my version of iMovie, there's only: 'fit", 'crop to fill', and 'ken burns'. fit includes the black bars. crop to fill doesn't allow you to fully control height and width. I had to send to my iPad, and crop manually there, then send back to my mac. It's really frustrating that the developers just won't give you full freedom to drop.
@@LawrenceKH Fit and Fill are the only two real options. That's because a video has to be a certain size, like 16:9. Either you have black bars or the image has to be large enough to fill both the width and height of the video frame. There is no other option, logically. Cropping it some other way like in a graphics app (why did you do that on your iPad instead of on your Mac?) just replicates either fit or fill.
thanks!
Thanks bunches
How do I use this on iPhone? I don’t see a screen that looks anything like this. Where is Crop to fit? I’m trying to do a Picture in Picture, with a long rectangular picture.
iMovie looks very different on an iPhone. To crop, select the clip in the timeline and use two fingers at the top of the screen in the preview area to zoom in or out and move around.
@@macmost I’m trying to insert a long rectangular picture and it automatically cuts off the bottom and makes it Square. Is it not possible to have a picture in picture that is actually rectangular like the original picture? I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere but I’ve been trying for a long time
@@Elahnah.Reseller It is difficult to do. The best way is to use an image editor and create.a 16:9 image that is exactly what you want. Then import that.
@@Elahnah.Reseller I know this is a year old comment, but I had the same issue and came here for help. What I ended up doing is converting my picture to a video in Windows 10 and then importing that video into iMovie and it kept the whole picture. Hopefully this will help someone else.
@@1011momara thank you. I don’t think that will work for me, but maybe for someone else
It doesn’t work for iPad because of the interface difference but thanks anyway!
You can still crop in iMovie for iPad. It just works a little differently.
I’m trying to do this on my phone that’s the thing
Shame on the video editor who is guilty of committing the video atrocity of BBC (Blow-up, Blur, Crop) 4:3 aspect ratio films and video (or 4:3 films transferred to video) to fill the 16:9 frame. Doing "click to fill" may look OK on a computer screen (other than the unnaturally overly large images) but on a TV the loss of resolution is terrible. You are taking standard definition video and degrading it to substandard definition video. You are also altering/censoring the carefully composed and framed 4:3 aspect ratio images by the historical cinematographers. Leave 4:3 alone!
I don't get why it's so hard to crop a landscape video into portrait. No easy way on iMovie, no easy way on Premiere Pro. Don't get why we have all this software and it can't do the most basic edit of cropping a video in portrait mode which is pretty damn standard these days when making reel or tittok edits
Not sure what you mean. Cropping it so you have horizontal video, but with huge black bars on either side? If you are making a video for TikTok then you aren't making horizontal video though.
Exactly bro
Wow! Thank you! Lol, just kidding, it doesn’t work on phone
Absolute garbage. SO if i have an ratio 16:9 i can forget working on imovie?? hahaha Since it will automatically fill the sides. Like what?? hahaha
The more i use Apple products, the more i notice how absolutely garbage they are.
Not sure what you mean. iMovie works in 16:9 normally. If you have a 4:3 image, you can choose to crop the top and bottom, or show the whole thing (with nothing on the sides), or crop it any way you like. This has nothing to do with iMovie in particular. It is a fact-of-life. It is how shapes fit together. It would be the same in any video editing app, from the most basic to the most advanced.
@@macmost What i meant is.. If i pull in a 9:16 file (recorded holding a phone upwards) iMovie will automatically force it to convert to the opposite. From 9:16 to 16:9. It automatically thinks we are wanting to make the video file widescreen. (Who made that call lol)
U say it has nothing to do with iMovie, yeah right. Funny how when i put that video in Quick time it plays it without making it wide screen and without filling the sides with black. Funny how when i open it on my phone in movie player it plays it in 9:16. When i open the file in snapchat it doesn't convert it in anyway. Or when i put the file in YouCut it does not put it in widescreen mode, by putting black on the sides. But the moment i drop it in imovie booom 16:9, with black on the sides.
This has to do with absolutely nothing but iMovie thinking a head.
With that said i found the solution in one of ur other videos, which i truly thank you for!! Good job!! I always learn alot from you!! Thank you!!
Only problem the solution is embarrassingly cryptic!
1. I have to open a new project from the menu bar. Not from the projects tab. Why?? Makes no sense..
2. You can not use the two "templates/formats" New Movie or New Trailer, though those are the ONLY TWO iMovie offers from the start. Like what?!? hahaha
3. I have to decode the developers brain and understand to open a new project as an "app developer", to even have a chance to not change the ratio of the original file.
4. After dragging in the file to the correct template, now i have to know to render my project from the tabs menu AND NOT from the normal share button on the upper right! Since the one option that is visually represented to me on the upper right, will not give me a 4k option to render my project.
5. After all of this i have to understand to render the file in 4K tho the original video was never 4k in any step of the way.
6. I have to understand that now my aspect ratio did not change,,, but my rendered file IS NOT A 4K FILE!! Tho that is what i had to choose to keep my file 9:16 looool
This process is literally the only way to take a 9:16 file from ur phone and keep it as that.. a 9:16.
Maybe u originally got me wrong, but this has EVERYTHING to do with iMovie and nothing else.
Its easy.. If i pull in a 9:16 I WANT TO KEEP IT AS THAT!!
With that said.. Love ur content! This rant is not in anyway directed at you.
I genuinely feel Apple is trying nothing more but to frustrate the users whom have the slightest bit of more wants or knowledge. Trying to force us to pay for the simplest of features, by investing in Final Cut.
I say.. No thank you!
I agree with you about Apple products have a low user experience but it’s not the this guy’s fault? hahaha He’s just trying to show a solution without clickbait. So, thank the guy and stop being asshahahahole??
I wanted to learn how to stretch videos but you didn’t talk about it at all.
Do you mean stretch or zoom? You can't stretch (non-proportional). But cropping is the same thing as zoom. You crop ("crop to fill") to the area you want to take up the whole frame. Try it.
@@macmost I mean stretch (restoring the aspect ratio of a deformed video). I’m surprised there is no tutorial to teach how to complete this seemingly straightforward task.
@@yousafmehmet Ah, so it sounds like you have some video that has the wrong aspect ratio or something? iMovie can't correct that. You'll need to correct it elsewhere first. How did you get video like that?