Any of you had GOOD experience changing an app preview video size to fit the different screens when preparing for submission? What is the best way to resize dimensions/proportions of a video to fit iphone 4, 5, 6 and ipads.
I tried to do it with iMovie, but I can not find a way I checked google, and seems like iMove lets you do it, but mine won't. I was thinking of buying software, but not sure which one will allow me to do that. All help highly appreciated. I have recorded the video on an iphone 6+ connected to macbook pro using Quicktime.
apple makes it way harder than it should be to make those preview videos. i've recorded from iPhone 6 plus 1920x1080 and for iPhone 6, had to scale down to 1335x750, lock (or unlock) the aspect ratio (i can't remember), and crop the video to 1334x750. i used after effects for that part but iMovie to make the preview videos
I've always used Adobe Premiere for resizing. But you may not have that software. iMovie and other consumer level software will typically not have the bells and whistles you need for things like this. I haven't used iMovie much before so I can't say for sure but AP definitely can accomplish this.
Hey Machine Rises. Thank for the opinion Do you by any chance know how does it work with publishing? Lets say I place a video preview for iphone 6, do iphone 5 and ipad users get excluded from viewing it, or do the view it but distorted in some way?
Sure thing @Pavel Baikov. I'm not sure but I would guess that they would not be able to see it. You could try contacting apple or use their forums for a specific answer on that though. I use all sorts of forums when I have specific questions only that group would know.
If you're on Mac there is a $3 nice, simple, and easy to use program on the app store called "Movie Resize for App Previews". I use it and it works great. Company Website: http://osxapps.cflat-inc.com/2015/08/10/movie-resize-for-app-previews/ On App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/movie-resize-for-app-previews/id1017708570?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo=4
I've had 'Handbrake' in my video tool kit for ages. Multi-platform, flexible and free. To be honest though, that $3 app @stevinz mentioned above looks the ticket too.
This one really helped me... http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...ake-app-previews-but-i-cant-export-the-correc I use the method where I insert a png in the very beginning and shorten it to 0.1 seconds... No one can ever tell. The best thing is to film with and iphone 6 plus and size to ip6, ip5, but you can use any of those devices to size to that device group. Also depending on the game I might just resize to iPad if its not my next billion dollar game ahahahah, but otherwise you can film an iPad size using quicktime. just depends how much time you want to spend on it. Even if you use a black image that is iPad res to your ip5/6/6+ grouping its not that bad as Apple just adds black bars to the preview anyway.
@stevinz thats a great wee video utility. Thanks for posting. Purchased. Tested. All good. Perfect for App vids. Recommended to all. For the record my general purpose video converter of choice on the Mac is: http://www.iskysoft.com/video-converter-mac.html
I wrote an article a while back on "Getting Started with App Previews", check it out here: http://dancounsell.com/articles/getting-started-with-app-previews Oh, and yes the latest iMove (10.x) does indeed support App Previews: Hope that helps.
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