I can quickly crop a video on my iPhone or iPad, but not on my Mac?

[mossme89]

With iOS 13, Apple introduced easy cropping of videos in the Photos app.

I really really wish they'd bring this feature to the Mac. It's insanely useful in iOS. As it stands right now, I could either create a new project in iMovie, crop it, then export, OR AirDrop to my iPhone, crop, then send back to my Mac. I do the latter. And it just has me wondering why Apple didn't introduce this feature to Quicktime on macOS.

 

[Bazza1]

And iMovie for MacOS is far from intuitive...

 

[bogdanw]

AviDemux can crop fast https://avidemux.org/nightly/osx_catalina/

 

[kohlson]

I'm still on Mojave, but QTP does this pretty quickly. Command-T, adjust, Save-as.

 

[claybo89]

I'm still on Mojave, but QTP does this pretty quickly. Command-T, adjust, Save-as.

Can't find the way to upgrade to QTP. I searched online and found that Apple stopped selling it since 2017

 

[kohlson]

Ah - in this case the "P" stands for Player. It's the Quicktime that comes with every release. QTPro was a very useful tool, which Mac OS X left behind a long time ago.

 

[claybo89]

You can import the edited video to Keynote (macOS X 10.14 or later), and crop the video or change the slide size of the whole video.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208484#mac

 

[0128672]

You can also import into iMovie and use the pinch to zoom in cropping tool. It's pretty easy. Select the clip or whole movie and use two-finger pinch to resize.