
That said, iMovie themes and titles are not suitable for editing vertical videos any more. Now you could continue editing vertical video in iMovie and export to full-screen portrait video.
To do so, just select your clip on the timeline and click on the Crop button on top of the preview windows, then click Rotate Right. To avoid black bars in iMovie, you need to rotate your vertical video to horizontal orientation.
Part 1: How to Make Vertical Video with iMovie & QuickTime Player
> Part 2: How to Make Vertical Video without iMovie. > Part 1: How to Make Portrait Video with iMovie and QuickTime. Alternatively, you could also use a more powerful video editor for Mac to edit vertical video without limits. In this article, I will show you how to make vertical videos in full screen with iMovie using an easy workaround method, but having some limits. Or you have to squeeze your vertical video to be horizontal, losing top and bottom parts of the video. The following picture shows a typical vertical video edited with iMovie. If you used iMovie to edit portrait videos created either by your mobile phone or computer, you'll find out that additional black bars on the both sides of the original vertical video are added automatically. How to Make Vertical Video with iMovie on Mac and PCįor the time being, iMovie could only export landscape (horizontal-oriented) video.