This is an issue with the i, and phones camera . The camera on your i. Phone is not capable of capturing a full 360 degrees of video, so it will cut off your head if you are moving too fast.
It sounds like your source footage has a 4:3 aspect ration while i. Movie is 16:9 so i. Movie is blowing up your picture to fill the frame and cutting off the top (or bottom) of your picture . See if my post in this thread helps. I don’t see where I am to change that.
Why does my video keep cropping in iMovie?
It adds black bars to the top or sides to make the video “Fit” the 16:9 aspect ratio of i, and movie. The cropping problem may be happening because you have your i. Movie preferences set to “Crop to Fill”.
How do I make a portrait video smaller in iMovie?
Best of all, it allows you to re-encode large videos in 4K to make the file smaller ., sometimes, i Movie will crop the top and/or bottom of your portrait video – in this you need to change Portrait Mode to Landscape Mode before importing the video.
, sometimes, i Movie will change your aspect ratio if you add more than one video at one time on your Mac. It will make the aspect ratio of your previously added video as default. To prevent the second video from being cropped, you need to uncheck the Fit option.
How to zoom in a video in iMovie?
You will see a magnifying glass with a ‘+’ sign in the bottom right corner of the preview pane. Tap it and you will see a tooltip appear beside it ” Pinch to zoom video”. Pinch out on your videoclip to let it fill the pane. This reveals the rest of the video that was hidden when i. Movie automatically zoomed the portrait video.
In Imovie for ipad, when you open a portrait mode clip in a project, you can rotate the clip by using two fingers the top left panel. Clip will change to landscape mode with no borders.