How do you change aspect ratio using iMovie?

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Danisdy Posts 10 Registration date Friday May 22, 2020 Status Member Last seen April 23, 2023 - May 22, 2020 at 04:02 AM
Sanjeev9910 Posts 40 Registration date Tuesday May 26, 2020 Status Member Last seen October 21, 2020 - Jun 4, 2020 at 12:30 AM
Hi guys,

iMovie can't change aspect ratio, right? No matter how I crop the video, move the position of the window, drag the handle to reframe it, the video is always at 16:9.

How do you change the aspect ratio or I should say crop a video freely on Macbook? Other built-in apps, QTP and Photos do not work.

I know FCPX can crop, but it's not within my budget.

TIA
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HelpiOS Posts 14519 Registration date Friday October 30, 2015 Status Moderator Last seen November 20, 2024 1,865
May 22, 2020 at 06:33 PM
Hi,

I found MPEG Streamclip which is able to change video aspect ratio. You can download it for free from this link.
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Danisdy Posts 10 Registration date Friday May 22, 2020 Status Member Last seen April 23, 2023 4
Jun 3, 2020 at 01:58 AM
I kept searching online the other day, and figured out what I need is actually cropping videos which including reframing videos at a certain aspect ratio and at a freeform. This article rounded up lots of video cropping software, and I tried some free and lightweight tools on the list. They all worked quite well for me.

I will leave the link here for anyone in the same situation.
https://www.videoproc.com/video-editor/free-video-cropper.htm
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murray098 Posts 1 Registration date Wednesday June 3, 2020 Status Member Last seen June 3, 2020
Updated on Jun 3, 2020 at 10:24 AM
Click on the button marked crop on the tool bar section. You will see a pop-up window with resolution options of 16:9 and 4:3 to automatically resize the video to the appropriate screen size.
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Danisdy Posts 10 Registration date Friday May 22, 2020 Status Member Last seen April 23, 2023 4
Jun 3, 2020 at 09:59 PM
This is an old method invalid in the latest iMovie. What's the version of yours?
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Sanjeev9910 Posts 40 Registration date Tuesday May 26, 2020 Status Member Last seen October 21, 2020 9
Jun 4, 2020 at 12:30 AM
To change a project's aspect ratio:
Click to select a project in the Project Library, or open a project so that it's showing in the Project browser, and then choose File > Project Properties. ...
Choose an option from the Aspect Ratio pop-up menu.
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