

When editing complete, output a landscape video without black bars Next, locate your video in Finder, right click on it and choose QuickTime Player from the Open With menu. iMovie is designed for making landscape video only. 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

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.
