Edit your movie like normal in iMovie.
If you’d rather watch this post than read it, here’s your chance. The problem is, so many of you are editing your movies in iMovie or another budget-friendly software and they just don’t have the capabilities to edit your movie into a square natively – BUT – y’all know I love a good hack. Think about it, have you ever been scrolling and saw a video – which catches your eye more, the one that’s smaller and horizontal or a bigger, square video? Why? Because when someone is scrolling the ol’ ‘book on their phones, a square video takes up way more “real estate” on the screen than a horizontal video does (and the same with vertical, of course). How to make a square video in iMovieįun fact: Square and vertical videos have a better viewing and retention rate on Facebook. If iMovie does things using method 2, then recording in 5K would really help keep the resolution higher on those cropped/panned/zoomed scenes.It’s been a mystery until now but I’m teaching you how to hack the system and create a square video in iMovie. But I also do a lot of ken burns effects to simulate pan & zooming. I often crop scenes so the 'action' is more front-and-center. My projects are all 4K these days so for me, it would be importing 5k video.
So if you crop a 4k video down in half, then export, it's still going to be 1080p all the way through. The whole raw original file is imported into the project and only once you export out the final product, is any video resolution changing happen. Method 2) When you import 4K video into a 1080p project, nothing is converted.
I would refer to this as the shit method. So when you render the final product, you could have video that is 720p or lower, depending on how much you cropped. THEN any editing you do, including cropping, are done on the 1080p imported content. Method 1) When you import let's say 4K video into a 1080p project, iMovie could convert that 4K video into 1080p. The way I figure, there are two different ways it could work and given how much iMovie for Mac is one of many red-headed stepchildren of Apple, I wouldn't be surprised if they do it the shit way. That way the cropped result will be a higher resolution and the cropped clip should be sharper.īut they may not work, it depends on how imovie cropping works. One way to combat this would be to shoot in 5K on a gopro. So for example if I have a 4K project and I crop one clip down, that section of the video is going to be a lower resolution, then stretched to fill the 4K frame. When you crop video, you are lowering the resolution of the video.
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