It’s noteworthy that when you’re saving the video initially, the thumbnail may not show the cropped / zoomed video, but despite not showing that the video has been cropped or zoomed in that thumbnail when you look at the actual saved and exported video, it will be cropped. Now you can return to the Photos app and go to your Camera Roll or to the Videos folder of Photos to find the freshly cropped / zoomed video you just saved and exported. Choose the size you want to export the video, remember HD video sizes are larger but higher quality compared to the other video exporting settings.
#HOW TO ZOOM IN ON IMOVIE MOVIE#
Select where you want to save the video to, or how you want to share it, in the example here we are choosing “Save Video” which saves the cropped movie to the iOS Camera Roll in Photos app (yes your videos in iOS will be stored in the Photos app).Now you can save and export the freshly cropped movie from iMovie and save the video to the iPhone or iPad camera roll, so tap on the Sharing / Action button that looks like a box with an arrow flying out of the top.When satisfied with your cropped / zoomed video, tap the grey “Done” text button.When the magnifying glass says “Pinch to zoom video” you can now use a pinch or spread gesture on the movie preview to zoom and crop the video, do that until the video is cropped / zoomed sufficiently to your needs.An additional toolbar will be revealed, along with a tiny magnifying glass in the corner of the video, tap on that tiny grey magnifying glass in the corner to enable the crop / zoom feature of iMovie in iOS.iMovie will open the video into the project, now tap on the video timeline / scrubber section.Select the video you want to crop from your iOS library so that it has a little blue check mark on it, then tap on the text “Create Movie” button.
#HOW TO ZOOM IN ON IMOVIE PLUS#
Open iMovie in iOS if you have not done so already, then tap on the “Projects” and click the big plus sign “+ Create Project” button.The screenshots here demonstrate this on an iPhone with iMovie rotated sideways into landscape mode, but aside from the appearance it’s the same in landscape or iPad too.īefore getting started, be sure you have iMovie installed on your iPhone or iPad, and that the video or movie you want to crop / zoom is on the device itself. This works to crop / zoom any movie you can import into iMovie on iOS. How to Crop / Zoom a Video in iMovie for iPhone or iPad But not to worry, you can crop a video in iMovie directly on your iPhone or iPad, and you won’t need to download any third party apps to do so. And like many other features of iOS, the function to crop video in iMovie on the iPhone or iPad is hidden behind a few layers of interface abstraction that can be easily overlooked, or remain totally unknown to many using iMovie, leading many iPhone and iPad users to believe that there is no crop functionality in iMovie for iOS. IMovie for iOS allows you to crop videos, but it’s not particularly obvious, as there is no crop button, and instead the iMovie for iOS app indirectly refers to the crop capability by calling it zoom. If you happen to be interested, Mac users can perform a similar cropping video action in iMovie for Mac.
#HOW TO ZOOM IN ON IMOVIE HOW TO#
This tutorial will show you how to crop a video on the iPhone or iPad using iMovie.