
iMovie is designed with a built-in player for you to view your added video and make editing. Step 3: Drag and drop the video clip into the timeline. Many popular video formats like MOV, MP4, M4V, FLV, 3GP, and AVI are supported by iMovie. Click the File menu on the top, choose Import Media to add the video you want to cut in iMovie. Step 2: When your new project opens, you can see the browser, the viewer, and the timeline. Click the Projects tab, choose Create New and then click Movie option from the pop-up. If you are using iMovie on iPhone or iPad, you can follow the similar steps. This part takes iMovie trim video on Mac as an example to show you how to use iMovie to clip a video. As it mentioned above, it has a Split Clip tool for you to quickly make a cut on iMovie. It carries many commonly-used video editing functions like trim, merge, rotate, and crop, and so on. IMovie is the default video editor for Apple users. The steps are quite similar, you can try on your own.Īfter that, you can export to save the iMovie videos on Mac easily. You can also change the aspect ratio in iMovie to reset it.Īlternatively, you can also crop the source clip in the event browser before adding it to your movie. When you crop a video clip in the timeline, the frame is constrained to a 16:9 aspect ratio. Step 3Move and resize the frame until you are satisfied with the cropping result, then click "Apply" button, and you can get the cropped video from iMovie. "Ken Burns" is used to apply ken burns effect. Note: For other two options, "Fit" is used to restore a clip's original aspect ratio when it comes with a 4:3 frame. Here we need to choose "Crop to Fill", and an adjustable frame appears on top of the clip in the viewer. Step 2Click the Cropping button above the preview window, then you'll see three styles to crop videos.

Step 1Open your iMovie project, drop the video clip in the timeline. In the following tutorial, I'll take iMovie 10 as an example, and teach you how to crop a video in iMovie step by step. How to crop videos in iMovie on iPad/iPhone If you are a Windows user or just don't feel like iMovie, you can check part 3 about an alternative tool to do a better job than iMovie. In the following article, I'll show you how to crop videos in iMovie. Then, how to crop videos? iMovie is a good choice for video lovers to crop videos, along with other simple editing features like rotate, trim, cut and more. In such case, no need to restart, you can easily crop the video and get what you really want. Occasions may occur when you take unnecessary information or even black bars in the pictures.


It is not always perfect when you shoot a video for the first time. How to Crop Videos in iMovie (11/10/09 Included)
