iMovie Tutorial: Add Titles

Video Transcript

"IMovie is a registered trademark of Apple. I am in no way affiliated with Apple. Okay, now we're going to add a title to our project. Now, just like the transitions, there's a couple of ways you can open up your Title window. You can go over here to your tools on the right hand side, and where this little T symbol will open up your Title window. Or you can go to Window and hit Titles, or you can hit Command 3. So if we look in this Title window, you can see there's a number of different options, different types of titles. The simplest and most common is just a regular title that's keyed over, or appears over footage. So if we take that and we put it over our black clip, and the way you do that is you just grab it and drag it right onto your clip. This is a common way to start a video project with a white title over black. Now if we hit the play button up here in your Viewer window, you'll notice that the title will fade in and then when it reaches the end of the clip it will fade out. Now, I don't want to add the title over black here so I'm going to right mouse click on this and hit delete selection. I want to add it over our skyline clip, and I'm going to choose a different option. I'm going to choose a gradient white option. So I'm going to grab that, put it right on our Boston skyline; you can see it appear here. All of these title options allow for a main title text and a subtitle text; it's already there for you. And to change the text, you just have to double click in it, delete the text that's there and put your own, or you can just single click anywhere along the line to change a single letter. Now, I'm going to double click on the main text, delete it and I'm going to put L and Chris in the first line, and in the subtitle line I'm going to put Boston, Mass. Now, if we want to change these fonts, you can see this little Show Font button here. You highlight the fonts you want to change, you hit Show Fonts, it'll bring up your font requester, and I'm going to change this to verdana and I'm going to change the size to twenty-four. And on Boston, the second subtitle line, I'm going to also change it to verdana and I'm going to change that, let's go fourteen on that. Okay, let's quit out of that and let's hit play to see how that looks. Kind of like it, I kind of like the way that works over the skyline. I might choose a longer title but this is just something descriptive for now. Now you notice how it fades in, fades out. We can change that by going into our Project Properties, and under Title Fade Duration. Right now it's set for a half a second. I want it to fade a little longer, so I'm going to put that all the way up to two seconds. Hit okay. Okay, now let's put our cursor at the beginning of the clip and hit our space bar to play, and you can see how it fades in a lot slower and when it reaches near the end of the clip, it'll fade out a lot slower too. I kind of like that, so let's keep that. Now you can experiment with different types of titles, whatever you think looks best. They give you a number of options, and most of them look pretty nice."