#Adding text to imovie movie#

If you have “Trim background music” turned on in your movie settings, the audio in the background music well is automatically trimmed to match the duration of your movie. You can position, trim, and edit the background audio independently of clips in the timeline. Drag the clip to the background music well, located below where you movie sits in the timeline.Browse to find the clip you want to add to your project.To filter what appears, click the pop-up menu in the upper-left corner of the browser and choose a category. The contents of the selected item appear as a list in the browser. In the sidebar, select iTunes iTunes icon, Sound Effects Sound Effects icon, or GarageBand GarageBand icon.

When you’re finished, click the Apply button above the viewer.Note: You can’t change the font in certain theme-styled titles and some animated titles. To change the title’s appearance (its font, color, size, style, or alignment), use the font controls above the viewer.For more information, see 'Specify team information' for the Sports theme. Some title styles in the Sports theme appear in the viewer with pop-up menus, which you use to choose the team and player you want to appear in that title. In the viewer, select the placeholder text by double-clicking it, and type the text you want to appear.Select the title in the timeline, or move the playhead over the title.If you position the title in the center of the clip, the title’s duration is adjusted to appear over the entire clip. If you position the title in the first or last third of the clip, the title’s duration is automatically adjusted to appear in that third of the clip. Drag the title to the timeline, over the clip where you want it to appear.As you drag, a vertical yellow line appears when either end of a title is aligned with either end of a clip. If snapping is turned on (click the View menu and make sure Snapping has a checkmark next to it), the edges of the title align with clip and transition edges. Drag the title to the timeline, above the clip where you want the title to appear.The title is added to your movie at the position of the playhead. In the timeline, position the playhead where you want to add the title, and then double-click the title in the browser.Skim the title thumbnails in the browser to see how they move. Many titles are animated, which means they move on the screen in an interesting way. Browse the titles to find the one you want to use, or use the search field to search for the name of a particular title.

If you’ve set a theme for your movie, titles related to the theme appear at the top of the browser. Available title styles appear in the browser.

With your movie open in the timeline, select Titles above the browser.

Now, you’ll have a pretty little title, branded and placed exactly where you want it.Ĭarry on with your video-editing bad self now. Then, you can resize and place wherever you’d like and WAALAA! Once it’s there it DOES insert in a weird way, so you’ll want to make sure you have “picture-in-picture” selected AND “fit” in the crop window. If you drag-and-drop, you’ll just drag and drop the image you want to use as a title (ya know, the one you just created) and drop it exactly where you want it to appear. I find that dragging and dropping the image you just made straight onto the movie works best but you can import or whatever feel comfortable to you. Now, in iMovie, create a new project/movie and find where you want to place your new title. In Photoshop, you’ll make sure you have a transparent background in your document and just “save as” a PNG. Note: You DO have to have Canva for Work to export with a transparent background. In Canva, you’ll just create it, then export it with a transparent background as a PNG. So, if you want to add some text that looks like this: Now, all you have to do is create the text you want to add to your movie in Canva (or Photoshop) with a transparent background. Gosh, I wish my ingredient list for supper was that simple. Well guess what buttercup? You can DEFINITELY add your own text, with your own branding, with your own fonts and colors to an iMovie movie. Those title things built into iMovie are FUGLY.

Adding text to imovie