iMovie Tutorial - Multiple Picture in Picture Overlay

This video is about iMovie Tutorial 2015 - Multiple Picture in Picture Overlay Tutorial. WOW, this really pushed my system to it's limits!! It crashed 4 times trying to screen record, edit, and record the voice over track, but..... I got it done!! Woo Hoo (^_^)
Basically, this video shows you how to get around the one video picture-in-picture limitation that Apple's iMovie has. There is a lot of rinse and repeating but you can get the same thing accomplished in iMovie that you can in the $299 Final Cut Pro X.
Thanks for Watching!! ET

[@Odood19]

This is so difficult for something that could be easily fixed. I demand multiple overlay editing capabilities!

[@ET_Videos]

Odood19 Exactly!! Apple says.... $299 and we will fix that for you ;-) lol

[@nicolasmolina7234]

Eric Timmer I say do it for free with Torrents! Richest company in the world and we can't get things for $20? Bring back duels and you bring back respect!

[@Exooo]

This is why we fucking need sony vegas pro and after affects on mac so we can get the cracked version and not even pay for it lol

[@EverRain]

Green/Blue screen *Wink wonk*

[@appleexposed4404]

@Nic so because you're poor, companies should give you their hard work for free? Apple is cheap enough. Logic Pro used to cost $4,500 before Apple acquired them and dropped the price to 200 with free upgrades.

[@wesleymorgantown]

This is perfect. I"m a pastor and we're doing worship remotely due to the covid crisis. I have been wondering how to do this for weeks, and you just made my life so much better! Thanks!

[@AlexaBosse]

wow what an annoying process

[@YuzuTranslations]

+Alexa Bosse Agree!!

[@nba356]

Thank you so much for this video. After watching many videos. I was able to grasp your tutorial on multiple thumbnail. I'm really grateful

[@HHTV60]

I just tried it and it does work (I wasn't sure if my 2015 iMovie 10.1 supported the picture-in-picture feature BUT I find that for a single picture in the corner and then the main video at the remainder of the screen, you can do it much faster. I selected the main video clip, and then added a small clip and placed it on the TOP of the first one and the 'Picture in Picture' control became visible. This way I render the final video ONE (1) time and it retains the quality better and saves on computer time. I don't need the black background frame just for 2 videos in the frame. iMovie supports 2 video tracks simultaneously. Thanks fro a great video.

[@kathencowan]

Thanks Eric, I just like your voice, calm and the ease that you explain things. Nicely done.

[@bclinton1213]

Thank you so much!!! even though its 3 years later, your video helped me sooooo much with my midterm project!!! #lifesaver

[@Cheeto_Fingerz]

Thanks for the help!!! Being a self-taught video editor, this had me stumped. [was trying to make one of those outros that most gamers use where they've got 2 big squares in their end-credits showing brief replays of their last videos]

[@allthelovealex3958]

this is so unnecessarily difficult thank u legend

[@STILLinLOVEwithNICK]

thanks you saved me from failing my class, that was far less complicated than doing it on photoshop like we were explained it to do

[@ET_Videos]

+Jane Doe Glad I could help!

[@kutproductionsinc3831]

Your channel has been a huge help man! Thanks... I have been looking for these answers for a while but most the other videos are garbage... I like all of yours! Great job!

[@mvu_bts9039]

I'm incredibly new to video editing and this has really helped developed my first go at creating a video. Thank you!

[@justin_grindley]

I was hoping the method you showed wouldn't be that one where you do multiple exports. They really need to add an option for multiple PIPs and even more such as the ability to select which area of each video you want to show in side-by-side. By default, it selects the fitted middle 8:9 frame and you can't change that.

[@serrainternational460]

Excellent! Still so helpful in 2022!!

[@motoringnetwork8721]

Excellent tutorial; concise, well-considered step-by-step instructions makes what appears a daunting project very easy.

[@DaveRodway]

This is great. Gonna try to make some drumming vids and have different vids, smaller boxes within the main vid showing different limbs working. Wish me luck! :)

[@SandeepAcharya4630]

You are a genius! Just love your tutorials since it is straight to the point. Thanks-za-ton ET!

[@batboii96]

this playlist of tutorials is really helping me out! ive learned a lot by watch all these videos. do you think you can do a tutorial on how to zoom into one part of the video while its playing, please and thank you.

[@AudioReplica2023]

sir you are a genius. thanks I've been looking for this 4 so long

[@Archiblog]

Thanks Eric! I found this tutorial extremely easy to follow and managed to make a short PIP movie myself as a test. I'm now heading over to your new tutorial on iMove 10.1.

[@TheRivetts]

Thank you so much, I've been wanting to do this for ever. I had no idea you could do this.

[@danchen3676]

You sound like Khan Academy

[@ET_Videos]

I'm older... he sounds like me ;-)

[@tusharmanan8417]

Dan Chen yeah lol

[@k13nsssy]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I JUST REALIZED THAT

[@GlossGirl]

super easy after watching this video. loves it

[@mora4852]

Where were you this entire time !!! you are amazing thank you !

[@ET_Videos]

mora AB Thanks!! I have been in the lab making all of these tutorials, lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHiqZp6YgrCggtE Thanks for watching!! ET

[@jstarjoker]

"Good enough for Government" -best line in the vid

[@titusmaddern8712]

Thank you, I couldn't get the picture in picture button to come up. Now i know why

[@hallen6762]

This was so helpful. Thank you for the step by step!

[@123DerekShort]

Thanks so much for the helpful information. I was able to create a really nice outro thanks to your helpful video.

[@vintageMIDI]

Clever technique. Now I don't need to fork over $300 for FCP! Thank you, ET!

Very smart. Looks great. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@MarieAdventure]

Thanks, I will try this in my next video.

[@WatersTube08]

Thanks for your video! I found it quite useful and straightforward!

[@noelleyang8147]

thank you! you saved my life

[@ET_Videos]

Glad I can help Doraemon out!

[@NigelHarperPhoto]

Brilliant! I'd wondered where the pic in pic feature had gone, this has been a big help!

[@BrainThangNetwork]

Ive been trting to figure this out for sooooo long! Thanks for the this helpful video!!!

[@JessSoul13951]

Hey, just wanted to say thank you so much for this tutorial (because Lord knows I have having a difficult time with the update) but I want to shout this video out in my next video because it helped me a lot!!!

[@CarolineKraze]

Thank you sooooooooo much! I am a newbie at iMovie, and this really helped for my new youtube channel!!!!:))

[@ElectrickDali]

Very Professionally added! Nice Work! Thanks!

[@alessionoviello8371]

That's what I'm talking about!!! Thank you Eric!

[@itsbrianworld02]

THANK YOU YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE THAT SHOW IT CORRECTLY

[@marcelvanderlinden7348]

This is exactly what I was looking fore!! Now I have a ton of new ideas for my own playground :)

[@ET_Videos]

Marcel van der Linden Yeah this video is basically just the beginning of the creative world of video editing. Good luck!!

[@aspiritysolutions]

Let me save you 9 minutes of your life. The solution: Just render picture in picture video, then import it into the timeline again and put another picture in picture in it. Workaround but it seems iMovie does not have it another way.

[@ET_Videos]

Yep, you are correct.

[@jemcea]

Thank you too much didn't know I could do this subscribed and liked THX!!!!!!!

[@brettbramble]

Thanks Eric, great tip! Will come in very handy

[@olibombbb]

You are a LIFESAVER! Thank you!

[@froggymountain]

We will use this for our research reports - to show multiple scenes of our test vehicles

[@BCDPLANET]

thanks this was great even though it was old

[@saidamendoza4351]

This helps so much!! I have a 40 minutes video and your video shows how to add image... I have to save my video each time...? I'm student teaching and I'm recording my lessons. I have a 40 minutes long lesson. I don't have every parents' consent to record their kids so I have to cover the ones who haven't given me the approval. 3 students meaning I have to save the video each time? I was able to add one student's face but I couldn't add more.

[@jeniwrightsonkramer]

this was so helpful! thank you!

[@flexlikeimtj]

Very Smart i never thought of this

[@KamalBensra]

Thank you for the video! Great help!

[@simtaylor4456]

Game changer, thanks so much man

[@TheSpaceEngineer]

yes this makes things so much easier.... Now I don't have to record every frame doing nothing and then inserting the next video lol. they need to add a thing where we can do multiple picture in picture

[@amehdi14]

well done and very well explained!!

[@madelynray4017]

thanks so much for the video i've been trying to find this tutorial everywhere!!!

[@ncharmaine]

So informative, thank you

[@PaddyMoore]

Thanks for posting this - great tip. It's lengthy but...that's what beer was invented for :-)

[@ET_Videos]

Yeah it's a pain but if you plan out your project...It's not too bad. But...I do recommend that if you are going to continue with video editing, you eventually upgrade to FCPX.

[@jobrodie7515]

Thank you - that was really helpful!

[@omoore1209]

Hi ET, novice GoPro and editor here even new to KZbin. I've watched all your tips and find your movies quick precise and narrated well. So thanks for all that. As a request, I wonder if you can explain how to edit baseball batt swing tracer tips. Trying to see the bat swing path using iMovie. All searches I find tracing a ball flight, esp related to golf, but I am trying to find iMovie way to tracer a bat swinging. Hope this comment is appropriate and easily understood. Thanks for your consideration and of course for all your iMovie edit instruction!

[@ET_Videos]

Link me to a video to give me an idea of what you are talking about. I am not sure I understand "tracer tips".

[@07floresguzman]

Ugh I hate that we have to find "hacks" to do simple things. iMovie really needs to step it up! Thanks for sharing though!

[@NickyParisComedy]

thank you so much for the video!!!! Going to be a big help for me

[@gusson69]

wow what an amazing voice

[@RevertantBear]

u uploaded this on my birthday

[@ET_Videos]

RevertantBear Happy Belated Birthday! Mine is next week. Hope I get a new MacBook Pro (?_?)

[@vootvlogs]

thanks this was really helpful!!!!!

[@josiahgodbey7258]

Extremely helpful!

[@mletalien]

Thank you Eric, well explained. Appreciate it!

[@TheKoolKardShow]

This was very helpful

[@awedbymonica]

So helpful.

[@MeieKleij]

most helpful video ever.

[@roanengland2692]

thx this really helped!

[@kttheegemini6253]

This helped me A LOT, thank you!

[@gregorybell5455]

This helped me so much, thank you

[@JoshuaMarsWorld]

thanks helped a lot

[@timo9912]

Very Helpful

[@po64879h]

Great video thanks

[@glamsisterstammy5018]

Thank you soo much!🎊

[@lolcollege2963]

You're a genius! Thank you :)

[@iMandyHere]

Thank you sooo much for this! I had been fighting with iMovie for about two hours now trying to figure this out! Do you know a way to remove the fade-in / fade-out in text? This new iMovie has me blowing my brains out.

[@ET_Videos]

+Amanda Nicole Don't think you can remove that text fade in. If you make an image of the text with a transparent background you can use picture-in-picture to put the text where you want and turn off the fading. It's kind of a work around kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJaqmWRqqLxkjLc

[@MehtabShahLawangin]

Thanks a lot man

[@fabiola_echeverria]

Very good video!

[@DiepSpartan119]

How come i try to do picture in picture and i click the small screen it doesnt let me movie around the background it kinda feels like i not been clicking but it has 4 blue dots doesnt let me stratch or move around can you help me im kinda stuck here

[@josiahbarnett]

When you do a picture in picture using a still over top of a video and choose the "zoom" transition for PIP, how do you stop the image from zooming backwards again? It expands which is what I want but I can't stop it from disappearing again.

[@KDURRANI]

Thank You! This really helped me, keep it up.

[@mail2647]

Hey...i need some help here...i want to a logo on either side of entire length of the movie...i'm able to use " picture in picture" to add a logo on 1 side only....any tips how to add it on the other side??...if i do it as u suggest in this tutorial...the file size would be huge...so any suggestion ?? Help is welcome....thanks..

[@dancingclo]

Silly question, but what about opaque video over layed with another ? (You save my life regularly btw :D) THANK YOU !

[@ET_Videos]

You could create an image and use that, but of course with iMovie you have to work around the limitations. FCPX would be easy ($299 though...)

[@dancingclo]

+Eric Timmer Thanks.... I did artsy slow dissolves over and over... so that should be cool...it's for performance art so I that's all good :)

[@gizzzha]

thank youuu!

[@frederique6330]

Thank you! This is very helpful :-)

[@ryryterrifyx]

Legend mate, thank you so much for this helped me big time!!!! Liked and subscribed!

[@ThePhysedCoach]

Great #hack! Just what I was looking for.

[@NidhiBhansali]

awsum!! awsum!! awsum!!! man u saved my life..whooaaa!! Thank u thank u thankuuuuuuu

[@MrZamberto15]

is there no easier way to do this on this program?

[@ET_Videos]

Not for more than one. Gotta upgrade to Final Cut Pro X to do anymore than one.

[@aneyz4092]

I wish they would just let you. I really don't want to pay $300 for multiple overlays. Also I was wondering if you could help me with a problem.

[@NikosKatsikanis]

Im gonna upgrade now! well to the free trial

[@JoshMacDonald]

Here I am using iMovie cuz I didn't want to open Final Cut Pro. Guess I'll have to lol

[@sadiegrater]

Is there a way to change the shape of the clip from rectangle to circle?

[@DiepSpartan119]

How can i stretch my picture in picture i cannot do anything on my imovie 2015 version it wont let me move around with small screen to the corner do i had to change settings or find something in imovie tools?

[@waikarimoana]

Thanks for that my friend,but i think we should give the programer and designer of the new version of IMovie a BIG pat on the shoulder and a big TROPHY which i call ""Complications Trophy"" as they made something that took 5 second on the OLD version of IMovie to do, be changed to a version that took 9 minutes for an export like you to do. I have over 400 videos on you tube and 300 hours of films all done on the old version with no major problems with old version. And this bunch of designers have come up with new version,Sleek and up market, but totally unworkable and like a good swimmer friend of mine,,"" with one arm""'. Looks good but slow on performance. Much appreciate you help we subbed because i am sure we have to come back for more help and some more with this LAME new version. Merry Christmas my friend and thanks again.

[@arnaud.l]

you lose image quality when encoding multiple times, right ?

[@idkjustlani2185]

Does this work on iOS?

[@amitkhurana78]

great video is it also possible to play the videos in series as in one video at a time?

[@ET_Videos]

Yeah, but it wouldn't be fun. I'd use FCPX if I wanted to get into more complicated editing.

[@DeMarcusAButler]

Great video!! But can the mobile IMOVIE do the same or no?

[@ericcartman5728]

I don't think so

[@germansophia5637]

Thank you!

[@lydiayuna9155]

is there a way to do this multiple split screens (4 videos) and play the videos one by one in certain order ? ( not playing them all at the same time ) so when the first video clip is playing, the other clips are stop until it finishes.