How to Adjust Video Alignment on iPhone and iPad

Jul. 9, 2020

No matter how good you are at recording videos, you would agree to the fact that a slight unexpected tilt may have messed up quite a few of your amazing clips. That’s just an order of the day and we all have come across it at some point or the other. But how do you adjust video alignment on your iPhone and iPad so that it can become pleasing to watch? Well, thanks to avideo-editing toolbaked right into the stock photos app, aligning and straightening clips have become pretty straightforward.

How to Align and Straighten Clips on iPhone and iPad

The native video editing tool is more than handy for fixing unaligned clips on iOS. So, at any time you come across a video that looks messed up, you can use it to fine-tune the perspective right from inside your photo library.

One thing worth keeping in mind before getting started with the steps is that the new video editing tools are available in iOS 13 or later. So, ensure that your device has the right iOS version installed.

2. Now,open the videowhich you wish to align.

3. Next, tap on theEdit buttonlocated at the top right corner of the screen.

4. Next up, hit thecropping toolat the bottom right corner.

5. Up next, you have three different alignment tools to choose from:Straighten, Vertical, and Horizontal alignment.

The straightening tool (first of the three) comes in handy when you want to perfectly adjust the tilted video. Simply, tap on thestraightening tooland thendrag the sliderto fine-tune the alignment as desired.

To get the vertical alignment right,tap on the Vertical alignment tool(second of the three) and thenuse the slider to adjust it. Though it tends to slightly skew the video, you can take advantage of the grid to align the clip precisely.

If you want to adjust the video along the horizontal axis, use the horizontal alignment tool. Simplytap on the horizontal alignment tooland thenuse the sliderto fine-tune the perspective.

Pro Tips:

Once you have perfectly aligned videos on your iOS device, make sure to tap onDoneat the bottom right corner of the screen to finish.

So, that’s the way you can straighten and fine-tune the perspective of your videos on iOS and iPadOS devices. For basic video editing where you just have to adjust alignment orbeautify your shots using a variety of filters, the built-in video editor is more than capable. What do you think of it? And where do you find it as compared to thethird-party offerings? Feel free to put forward your thoughts in the comments below.

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