How To Add Special Effects To A Video In Imovie

Add video overlay furnishings in iMovie on iPhone

With iMovie, you lot tin add together video clips and photos as overlays, which appear on top of the main clip in the timeline. Overlays can be arranged in the same mode as any other clip. At that place are 4 overlay options:

Cutaway: Adds the prune and then that, during playback, the movie "cuts away" from the main clip in the timeline and shows the cutaway clip instead. The audio of the main clip is however heard.
Moving-picture show in Pic: Adds the clip so that, during playback, the prune appears in a smaller window, superimposed on the main prune in the timeline.
Split Screen: Adds the clip so that, during playback, the clip appears next to the main clip in the timeline. By default, the two clips appear side by side, equal in size, just you can swap the orientation of the clips so that one clip appears above the other.
Light-green/Bluish Screen: Adds the clip so that, during playback, the clip appears with the green-screen or blue-screen parts of the clip removed, and the remaining parts of the clip are superimposed on the primary clip in the timeline.

Apply the viewer controls to adjust how your cutaway, motion-picture show-in-moving-picture show, separate-screen, or light-green-screen or blue-screen clips appear during playback.

Add a video clip or photo as an overlay

With your project open, scroll the timeline and so that the playhead (the white vertical line) appears where you want to add together the overlay clip.
Tap the Add Media button , and so do one of the following:
- Add together a video clip: Tap Video, tap to select a video category, and then tap a video.
- Add together a photo: Tap Photos or Albums, tap an album, and then tap a photograph.
Tap the More Options button , then tap an overlay choice.

Adapt video overlay effects

With your project open, tap to select the overlay clip in the timeline.

The overlay prune becomes outlined in yellowish, and additional controls appear in the viewer.
Do whatsoever of the post-obit:
- Reposition or resize a picture-in-flick clip in the viewer: Tap the Position Control button , then drag to reposition the overlay clip or pinch to resize it.
- Remove or add together a border effectually a picture-in-picture clip in the viewer: Tap the Edge push button .
- Swap the orientation of split-screen clips in the viewer: Tap the Bandy button .
- Remove or add together a line between split-screen clips: Tap the Line push .
- Set the viewing area inside the clip: Tap the Zoom Command button , then pinch to zoom and position the viewing surface area within the overlay prune.
- Modify the amount of green or bluish removed from a green-screen or bluish-screen clip: Tap the Adjust push button , then elevate the Strength slider left or right.
- Choose a different color to exist removed by the Green/Blue Screen upshot: Tap Reset, then tap a color in the clip.
- Automatically select the blue or light-green color to exist removed by the Light-green/Blueish Screen effect: Tap Reset, so tap Auto.
- Exclude parts of a dark-green-screen or bluish-screen clip overlay: Tap the Mask button , then drag the corners.
- Reset all adjustments: Double-tap the Zoom Control button , or tap Reset.
To preview your adjustments, tap the Play button .

Alter the overlay type

After you add an overlay to a project, you tin can change the overlay to a different blazon.

With your project open, tap to select the overlay prune in the timeline.

The overlay clip becomes outlined in yellowish, and additional controls announced in the viewer.
Tap the Overlay button , and then tap the overlay type you lot want to change to.