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Please Please Help (iMovie)

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Hi I would appreciate if there is a solution for this very much !!!

I am making a movie in iMovie for my mums 60th Birthday the idea is to get a loads of people and relatives to leave a video birthday message which she will be able to watch on her Birthday as she is going on holiday to celibrate.

My Issue is some people have used low quality camera's to record there message and they have no access to any better equipment, when I drag these movies into iMovie it streaches the to full screen, making the video worthless is there a way in iMovie of keeping the original size (120x200 or something) and leave a big black border so that at least it will be viewable.

Also as a second issue someone has shot there video in Portrait therfore is there a way of rotating the whole video 90 deg?

Thanks for any coment or sugestions.
 
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round-a-bout method for issue one and two.

play the video in a QT window on your computer, and use something like iShowU or some other video screen capture software to record the entire screen with video and audio.

then import the screen capture video into iMovie. Just make a black background on your screen, and remove the icons, or hide them behind the video while it plays.

Now, you have a more manageable sized video to work with.

Best of luck,

Brian
 

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