IMovie keeps cropping my picture in picture...

I have set my logo png to 16:9 (the same setting as my imovie) but when I drag and drop it in and select picture in picture, it is still cutting off the top and bottom. Please help...it's driving me insane!

KateH1984 wrote:
… Ha ha...I am normally the 'print' queen! …
… I 'felt' that ......
KateH1984 wrote:
… Can what you say be done in Photoshop?
as said: 1920x1280, RGB (no cmyk!), square pixel ratio, no layers, png ... (did I miss anything? there are soooo many options in 'print') ...
afaik, you should be allowed to open the .ai directly in PS; it will ask for a ppi/dpi to convert vector into pixel - as mentioned: no such thing, type 72 .... (10 or 1000 wouldn't make a difference). or, perhaps, there's a 'convert layer into pixel' command (such is for Text layers)? ....
to make the Print-Queen a Video-Princess:
dots-per-inch is a interpolated value in print; a HDef monitor offering 1080 has these 2457600 pixels - INDEPENDENTLY of monitor size (=inch). so, the tiny 10" car display of the huge 60" suite plasma - all same resolution. therefor no ratio pixel vs length .... video only asks for real pixels. whatever size.-
no need to purchase Pixelmator - it's the poor man's Photoshop (on Black Friday it was a 14$ offer) ....

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Gem
Events are organised strictly on date and time, as read by iPhoto from the Exif data in the Photo. You cannot manually sort.
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IMovie Crop picture-in-picture & feature requests

I love the new iMovie because it is so fast. I wish it had a few more features though. Maybe it does and I don't know where to look...
1. cut-out picture after you insert picture-in-picture. It seems to let you cut-out crop a picture when you insert a picture doing green-screen which is great! but when you select picture-in-picture overlay, you are stuck either with the full size video or fully cropped version. For instance, if you are inserting a person shot on white background into a full white screen, you can't cut-crop out studio junk that are on the side of the picture without cropping the whole thing closer - loosing resolution.
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WrongwayF16 wrote:
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in iM, click on 'Help', type 'picture in picture' as Search keyword ...

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Any help would be much appreciated.

laurenmatkins wrote:
… an image without a background on top of a clip using the Picture in Picture tool - selecting the 'Fit' option instead of the 'Ken Burns' option suddenly gives it a black background. …
you're trying to accomplish the 'transparent.png' trick ...
as described e.g. here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21897581#21897581
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I appreciate this is a really old post, but having just experienced the same problem myself this afternoon (despite never having had a problem in the past with around 50 previous projects!) I thought I would post the solution I got to work.
Despite saving the image I wanted to use as a .png file with a transparent background, as soon as I imported it into iMovie and clicked the fill option (so that all of the image would appear), the black background reappeared. Doing a little research on the Internet, I discovered this was unavoidable because of how iMovie interprets the 'fit' and 'crop' commands, despite having a play with some of the settings within the 'Project Properties' window. I also tried re-sizing the water mark as suggested by someone on YouTube to match the 'picture in picture' box within iMovie, which is 175 x 85px but still no good! The image was also really poor quality, despite saving it using hi-res settings.
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Hi
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IMovie keeps cropping my picture in picture...

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