Add Text to a Background or Image in iMovie 10.1.1 | Tutorial 80 Video Lecture | iMovie Mac: Basics to Advanced - Professional Skills

hello and gents rocker and welcome to
neuron phones today we're going to
continue our iMovie tutorials and in
this tour I'm going to show you guys how
to add a title to a background let's go
ahead and open up iMovie and let's show
you guys right this right away I'll go
straight into my projects here my
project on my tutorial project open it
up and right here at the very top we
have our audio titles backgrounds
transitions go ahead and click on
backgrounds this is where you'll find
your basic backgrounds and if you scroll
over them you'll see some of their
effects what they do I don't know why
Apple wanted to put in all these
geography type of ones but if you scroll
down you'll be able to find other
additional ones and you can also create
some of your own if you're interested
through motion 5 and that's a whole
nother application which I have
tutorials on as well but I'm going to go
ahead and choose this underwater from
background I'm going to go ahead and
drag and drop it straight into my
project automatically adjusts it to 4
seconds but you can make it either
shorter or a lot longer by grabbing the
edge the end of the actual clip so I'm
going to make mine 5 seconds and now
what we're going to do is we're going to
go into our titles just next to the
backgrounds at the very top titles and
you have several titles here you can see
their effect as well all you have to do
is scroll over them
what's my mac here what's my mac here
loads up but here you are um you'll be
able to scroll over them and see them
just like this I'm going to just choose
the standard one just like this fades in
and fades out and I'm going to go ahead
and drag and drop it right on top of my
actual background now I keep in mind you
can import your own backgrounds you can
simply drag and drop images just like
this I'm grabbing an image from my
desktop and dragging it straight in and
there you have it
and it might put in a little fading
effect just like this on it or a little
glide effect that you didn't want to
regional II it's called Ken Burns you
can remove that by just hitting fit this
little crop button hit fit and then hit
enter let me hit the little checkbox to
apply it and now you'll notice the image
is just still but I'm going to remove
this because we're focusing on this
title here with this background so we
have a 4 second title but actually just
going to make it 5 seconds and have it
match the actual background um
double-clicking on the title we can go
ahead and edit the title and I'm going
to remove the top bar remove the bottom
bar and on time ground put in something
here in the middle and we'll just say
hey there just like that and you can
also adjust this if you hit Enter
you can add spaces and you can add it
and move that title wherever you please
just like this I can move it lower or
you can even move it higher area but
unfortunately iMovie does not give you
the option to actually move the text
around and where you want it so you just
got to add your spaces as you please and
do it everything then that way in order
to get the text where you want it that's
one big limitation that I found within
iMovie but there you have it you cannot
choose any one of these texts and you
can choose any image as your background
but you don't have to use the
backgrounds that are provided by a movie
and the text here and that's basically
it and that's the basics of putting text
on a background thank you guys for
watching be sure to leave any questions
in the comment section below and later
of the proof of yeah
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