How To Crop A Movie In Imovie

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Some video-sharing sites like Instagram requires that all videos should be in the certain sizes and lengths. Thus, you can crop parts of a video in iMovie to make your video smaller. It is also a good way to zoom into a video in iMovie on Mac or iPhone. You can cut out the unnecessary part and focus the special spot.

• Crop clips in iMovie on Mac. You can crop photos, freeze frames, and video clips in your movies to get a close-up of a subject of interest, or to eliminate unwanted areas. Cropping is also useful if you have photos or video clips that don't fit within your movie's aspect ratio (for example, if you have footage converted from an old standard-definition video camera that you want to mix.
• Even though you can crop and trim videos in the Photos app, you can also use iMovie to make any necessary changes to a video's length and size. Here's how to do it: Open the iMovie app on your iPhone. Tap on Create New Project and select Movie.

Select the photo or video clip, and then press the C key or click the Crop button. Do any of the following in the viewer:. To change the image orientation, click the rotate buttons until you get the orientation you want.

Here is the tutorial to crop a video in iMovie on Mac and iOS. By the way, you can get iMovie alternative software to cut a video on Windows and Mac with easy steps. Just read and check.

Part 1: How to Crop a Video in iMovie on Mac

iMovie allows users to crop photos and video clips to eliminate unwanted areas. The cropped clip can fit the whole video smartly. This section will show you the tutorial to crop a video in iMovie 11 on Mac.

Step 1Add your video file to the iMovie timeline.

Step 2Choose the video clip you want to crop. You can delete videos from iMovie if it.

Step 3Click the 'Crop' option on the top toolbar of the preview window.

Step 4Click 'Crop to Fill' to get an adjustable frame.

Step 5Resize this frame to crop a video in iMovie on Mac with the original aspect ratio by default.

Step 6Apply the crop and click 'Play' and preview the cropped video file. After that, you can easily export the cropped video to YouTube or hard drive on Mac for watching.

Part 2: How to Crop a Video in iMovie for Windows Alternative

iMovie is a video editing program developed for Apple iOS and macOS devices. There is no official iMovie for Windows version. If you want to get the similar iMovie features to create a storytelling movie on Windows 10, Apeaksoft Slideshow Maker can be your best iMovie alternative software.

You can get dozens of themes and customizable filters to create your own movie with ease. It is easy to make stylish videos on different occasions. Of course, you can crop, resize, rotate and apply basic editing effects to your file.

• Input your materials from videos, audio and pictures.
• Make a slideshow video for wedding, travel, party, Christmas and more.
• Get hundreds of elements to customize the provided theme or make new themes.
• Crop a video in proportion or freely within the video controller and video editing tools.

Step 1Launch the iMovie alternative for Windows software. Click 'Add Files' to add your picture, video and audio file. You can also add background music with any song you like.

Step 2Choose the target video file. Click 'Edit' to access the video editing filters. In the new popping-up window, you will be in the default 'Edit' section.

Step 3Switch to the 'Crop' section. Specify the crop area by parameters or drag-and-drop. It is OK if you want to change the aspect ratio. Just mark before 'Manually'. Now you can crop a video without aspect ratio. Then click 'OK' to save changes.

Step 4 Choose the provided theme or DIY a theme with 'Text', 'Transitions', 'Filters' and 'Elements' in the right pane. Finally, click 'Export' to choose the output format and resolution for your slideshow video.

Part 3: How to Crop a Video in iMovie on iPhone and iPad

The default Photos app does not allow iOS users to crop a video directly. Luckily, you can use iMovie to zoom in a video on iPhone and iPad. The aspect ratio of your video will not be changed.

Step 1Open the iMovie app. Tap 'Projects' > '+' > 'Movie' to add your video to iMovie.

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Step 2Navigate to the video you want to crop.

Step 3Tap 'Create Movie' near the bottom of your iPhone or iPad screen.

Step 4Choose the small magnifying glass icon on the top right corner. Then use your thumb and forefinger to zoom in your video with iMovie app.

Step 5Tap 'Done' to crop part of a video in iMovie on iPhone. Head to the Camera Roll to get your cropped iPhone video.

The default Photos app does not allow iOS users to crop a video directly. Luckily, you can use iMovie to zoom in a video on iPhone and iPad. The aspect ratio of your video will not be changed.

Step 1Open the iMovie app. Tap 'Projects' > '+' > 'Movie' to add your video to iMovie.

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Step 2Navigate to the video you want to crop.

Step 3Tap 'Create Movie' near the bottom of your iPhone or iPad screen.

Step 4Choose the small magnifying glass icon on the top right corner. Then use your thumb and forefinger to zoom in your video with iMovie app.

Step 5Tap 'Done' to crop part of a video in iMovie on iPhone. Head to the Camera Roll to get your cropped iPhone video.

Part 4: Quick Way to Crop a Video with Video Converter Ultimate

If you have finished video editing, you can use Apeaksoft Video Converter Ultimate to crop a video on Windows and Mac freely. There are many video cropping features. You can crop part of a video in iMovie with the fixed video dimensions only. But here you can crop a video to square in iMovie alternative without effort. Meanwhile, you can enhance video quality and apply other video effects in click

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Step 1Launch Video Converter Ultimate. Click 'Add File' to import your video.

Step 2Click 'Edit' to head to its video editor. Choose 'Crop' on the top.

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Step 3You can uncheck 'Keep Aspect Ratio' to change video aspect ratio. Later, draw the crop area on the screen. You can zoom in on a video with 4 zoom modes, including 'Pan & Scan', 'Letterbox', 'Medium' and 'Full'. Click 'Apply' to move on.

Step 4Set the output video format from the 'Profile' list. If you want to crop the size of a video, you can adjust video and audio settings, too. At last, click 'Convert' to export your cropped video.

That's the complete tutorial to crop a video in iMovie on Mac and iOS. You can crop your video to any shape you like. Actually, there are also other easy ways to zoom in on a certain aspect or freely, you can free download Slideshow Maker or Video Converter Ultimate to edit and crop videos.

You can crop a photo — cut away the outer edges of the image to bring the center of it to the forefront. You can do the same with video: Use iMovie in iLife to crop the image in a clip to get rid of something you don't want at the edges or to focus on the subject in the center of the picture. Note, however, that if you're working with standard or lower-resolution video, cropping may make the image in the video appear grainy.

How To Crop A Movie In Imovie

You may want to rotate a clip's image, especially if you shot the video by holding your camera sideways or if you shot the clip with an iPhone in portrait rather than landscape orientation. You can rotate and crop the clip's image at the same time. Follow these steps:

1. Select the clip in the Event Browser, and click the Cropping tool on the toolbar, as shown in this figure, to show the cropping view inside the Viewer pane.

   Open the cropping view to crop or rotate the image in a clip, or both.

2. To rotate the image in the video clip, click the curling right-arrow or left-arrow button at the top of the cropping view in the Viewer pane.

   The image rotates 90 degrees. Every time you click the left or right Rotate button, the image in the clip rotates 90 degrees.

3. To crop the image, click the Crop button at the top of the Viewer pane.

   After you click Crop, the cropping rectangle appears superimposed over the image in the Viewer pane.

   Adjust the cropping rectangle to crop the image in the clip.

4. Drag any corner or edge of the cropping rectangle to crop the image, or drag from the center to move the cropping rectangle.

   As you drag, the portions of the image outside the selected area dim to show that it will be cut. You can also drag from the center of the cropping rectangle to drag the rectangle itself around the image.

5. When you're finished adjusting the cropping rectangle, click Done.

To remove the cropping and restore the clip's image to fit in the frame, click the Fit button at the top of the cropping view.