IMOVIE HELP! (export + size)

[Jia]

When exporting my video, what size setting do I have to put down in order to make the people in the video skinnier looking, because right now it is not very true to size. I've done it by accident before, but can't remember how I did it.

My videos are 720 x 480.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

If you still have the video with the people being squeezed, open it in QuickTime Player and press CMD+I to see its resolution.

As you said, people look skinnier, the vertical resolution has either been enlarged or the horizontal resolution has been reduced, but if your videos are 720 x 480 (good old NTSC), you may have exported as 720 x 576?

 

[Jia]

If you still have the video with the people being squeezed, open it in QuickTime Player and press CMD+I to see its resolution.

As you said, people look skinnier, the vertical resolution has either been enlarged or the horizontal resolution has been reduced, but if your videos are 720 x 480 (good old NTSC), you may have exported as 720 x 576?

I checked the video it's current size is 936 x 702...
but oh I want to know how to make people skinnier, because now everyone looks fat and short...

 

[simsaladimbamba]

I checked the video it's current size is 936 x 702...
but oh I want to know how to make people skinnier, because now everyone looks fat and short...

Where do they look fat and short? In iMovie or in the exported version?
Do you know about frame aspect ratios?
Do you know, where you got the source video from?