From the far-left pop-up menu, select Green/Blue Screen.

Use the iMovie video-overlay option to remove the green background. Select the overlay image, and then in the editor/preview in the upper-right corner, click the Video Overlay Settings button that looks like two overlapping rectangles. If you want to use the green/blue screen removal option in iMovie, potentially to combine with other effects that won’t work with transparency, add these steps: You can drag the Fade In/Fade Out handles on the clip corresponding to the overlay in the timeline to have it fade in and out, and you can apply other effects, too.

The timeline shows the overlay above your main video or images.

Click the Crop button and choose Fit, otherwise the default Ken Burns Effect will move your overlay around.

Now in your project in iMovie, drag the export image into the My Media area.ĭrag the image from My Media to sit on top of the video or images that you want your Keynote slide to act as an overlay for. (That box won’t appear if you set the background to green or blue.) Click Next and choose a place to save the result image.Įxport as images lets you pick a transparent PNG.

Select File > Export To > Images and select PNG as the format and check the Export with Transparent Backgrounds box.

(You can instead set the fill to green or blue if you want text choices to be easier to view you can then use a color-removal option in iMovie described later in this article.)Ĭlick anywhere not on the slide and then click Change Master in the Format Inspector and choose Blank.Ĭlick the Text button at top, type text in, and use the Text Inspector to set a contrasting color and other values. In the Format Inspector at right ( View > Inspector > Format), choose No Fill from the Fill pop-up menu. You can later add master text to this if you want.Ĭhoose No Fill for the background of the master to allow transparent exports.

Select the Blank master (shown at bottom). Then, trim the end of the title to match with the end of your dialogue snippet.In Keynote, create a new presentation using the Wide format. Align and trim the title to the dialogue in the audioĭrag and drop your title to the frame that begins the dialogue snippet you’re focusing on. Copy a line from TextEdit and paste it into the title block.

While you could hand-type the text, we recommend you copy and paste the text that aligns with the frames you’re working on. Enter the title text snippet from the captions file Also available for foreign language subtitles!ģ. Rev now offers burned-in captions (open captions) if you’d rather not use this tedious title method in iMovie. Just go here, upload your video or URL, and check the “burned-in captions” box at checkout and you’ll receive a video with permanent, hard-coded captions added straight to your videos. Easier Captioning Method: Burned-in Captions from Rev In our example, we used Avenir Heavy font, 70 pt font size, bold, and outlined. It’s a tedious process to go back and change these settings later on. Take your time on this step to get the look and feel you want for your subtitles.

The default setting for the Standard Lower Third title is left-aligned, with two rows of titles: one bold, one thin.įor both rows of titles: center-align the text and match the font styles with the same font, size, boldness, and outline. This title will offer you the best take at an industry standard-looking subtitle. Add A ‘Standard Lower Third’ Title to the Timeline

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