You can see now instead of having nothing on the left and the right I now have the background showing there which is a little bit better. I can expand the background so that it matches the time of the cutaway. I'm going to go over to My Media and drag the actual video as a cutaway on top so the main video is really the background and my video is cutting away there. Let's just do something really simple here and use Industrial to show you how it works. Blobs is really good because it's kind of animated and so it Underwater. A lot of good things that you can use or just use a solid color or something like that.īut the Curtain one has moving, flowing curtains. A lot of people like to use Industrial for instance. There are several backgrounds that work really well. Scroll past the maps part and get to the regular backgrounds. I'm going to remove this video so I have a blank project down here. So the easiest thing by far is to use a background to go behind this. There is really not a good function for it in iMovie but there are some things you can do. It is very easy to do in advanced programs like Final Cut or Premier. We're going to take a look at how you can do that with iMovie.
You're either going to have to do without the top or the bottom, or you're going to have to shrink the entire thing so that you've got black bars on the left and the right.īut when you see this on TV, because a lot of times people send vertical video into news stations and they're showing some video and you've got left or right black bars there they fill it in with something. There's really no way to fix vertical video. You can move that around, hit OK, and then you get something that fills the whole screen but you're missing the top and the bottom. One way to deal with that is if you only need what's in the middle here you can go to Crop, and Crop to Fill, and it shows you the area that's going to be used. We've got a black bar here and a black bar here and the video, which while high resolution, is actually shrunk down to fit in here. You see now if I drag it here, here's the preview. Let's create a new project here and I'm going to drag and drop this video in to the media. So you should get in the habit of always turning your iPhone horizontally to take video.īut let's say you want to actually create something with this and now you've got the problem where if you put this in iMovie you're going to end up with basically what people call two black bars on either side.
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You never see TV or movies or anything like that shot in vertical mode.
It's very common because it is easy to hold your iPhone to take video and then you look at it on TV or your computer and you realize that it was probably a mistake.
Let's say you took some video with your iPhone and you made the mistake of taking it in vertical mode. On today's episode let me show you how you can deal with vertical video in iMovie. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Filling In the Sides of Vertical Video in iMovie at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.