So if the important bits of the photo are at the bottom you can drag it down there. But Crop To Fill you can actually drag this up or down to fit different parts of the photo. Crop To Fill will remove some of the photo of the top and bottom because there isn't room for it. Fit will leave black bars on the left or right. Using Crop To Fill means that the entire video frame will be filled with the photo. Using Fit means your entire photo will be shown. So each of these two things has its advantages. If I accept this you could see it's basically enlarging the photo so the left and right sides now match the left and right sides of the video frame. Crop To Fill will instead crop taking some off of the top and some off of the bottom. But because there's not as much to the left or right in the photo as there is in the video frame I get nothing. So you could see it fits the 4 by 3 image perfectly inside here where the height matches the height of the video. So, if I were to do Fit it's going to fit the image into the frame. Ken Burns is an animation effect that we won't look at right here. You've got basically two cropping styles you could choose from, Fit and Crop To Fill. If you select here you can play with cropping. So I can decide exactly how I want that shown in my video by adjusting cropping. But the actual photo which you see here in the project media actually has more to the top and bottom. You could see it fills the video here which is fine. Then I'm going to take a look at what I've got. I'm going to put it right in the Timeline. You can add a photo from your Photos Library or I'm just going to drag and drop it right here from the Finder. So I started a completely new iMovie project here and haven't added anything yet. Instead you've got to decide whether you're going to crop the top or bottom or you're going to shrink the image to fit and have black bars to the left or right. When this happens you can't just shoehorn the 4 by 3 picture into a 16 by 9 frame. However, it's common to have photos taken with a camera or your iPhone that are 4 by 3. It's particularly important when you're using photos or videos that don't match the screen ratio of your video. Now in working with iMovie it's important to understand cropping. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Today let's look at cropping photos and videos in iMovie.

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