Question: Q: iMovie cutting off top and bottem of my videos Help me!!! I have recorded video using my MacBook Pro and when i import the video everything is awesome looking but once I drag a clip to the editor portion of iMovie the program cuts off top and bottem of the video and places black bars there. Apple has a wonderful video editor called iMovie. This tool comes with some great editing features, and will give you decent results of your project. You need to know how to split video in iMovie so you can edit long clips into shorter ones, or cut out parts that you do not need. Step 1 Open your iMovie project, drop the video clip in the timeline. Step 2 Click the Cropping button above the preview window, then you'll see three styles to crop videos. Here we need to choose 'Crop to Fill', and an adjustable frame appears on top of the clip in the viewer.
iMovie will make projects at a 16:9 aspect ratio or at a 4:3 aspect ratio. It assumes you want a movie that will display correctly on a Television.
Cut A Clip In Imovie
To trim: Right-click the selection and choose Trim to Selection from the contextual menu. IMovie removes the frames from around the selected video. Edits that you make to one clip or still image can actually be copied to multiple items! Select the edited clip and click Edit→Copy from the iMovie menu. I know I can trim videos at the beginning or at the end with QuickTime Player — And practically any other video-editing-app. But is there a simple way to cut out parts within a video — say ad-breaks in a tv-recording? I mean, sure, it might be relatively simple to do with iMovie, but than I have to import and export — and that takes some.
After dragging a clip into your projject, you can use the Crop, Rotate, Ken Burns Tool on the middle toolbar to adjust the cropping. FIT will display your entire frame, and letterbix (add black space) to make it fill the aspect ratio. CROP will cut off the top, bottom, or sides to make it fit the aspect ratio without any letterboxing. In your case, choose Fit.
If you want to make FIT the default action for future clips you add, go to File/Project Properties and set it there as the default.
Dec 2, 2011 5:00 AM
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