10 More iMovie Editing Tricks For Your Next Video

macmost.com/e-2130 There are many unusual ways to use the features in iMovie to create visual effects and filters that you may not think are possible. Take a look at 10 ideas using titles, transistions, overlays and other techniques.
1. Blur Video Using Pull Focus Title
2. Use Titles For Quick Special Effects
3. Use a Cutaway To Add a Color Tint
4. Video Over Video With Opacity and Filter
5. Background As a Frame
6. Steal Titles From Trailers
7. Double Transitions
8. Transitions As Special Effects
9. Emoji As Easy Video Elements
10. Keyframes For a Handheld Shake Effect
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[@SoNowWhat]

Gary, Gary, Gary . . .in addition to holding the title of Doctorate of Macology, we hereby bestow the additional title of "Creative Genius". Thanks for all you do!

[@KALAMoLOGY]

By far the best "iMOVIE video editing" Video on the internet.... It was PERFECT!

[@orbitclanton7645]

Thank you so very much for all your videos. You bring joy to so many people with sharing your knowledge. You are a true example of what a good human being is. It is so nice to see someone pay it forward. You make all of us better.

[@GaryMiller1973]

Awesome sauce! These quick tips are brilliant. I’ve never thought of pulling content from the trailers but lots of cool effects. Thanks a bunch.😀

[@davidseibert5268]

I agree. You are amazing. Thank you so much for your helpful tips.

[@handiman5]

You are the best Mac teacher on the internet! Thanks!

[@CrumbsandConfetti]

Love your videos, so informative and straight to the point. Thank you 😊

[@rogerwprice]

Finally something useful from the Trailers!

[@TheLeaRaeShow]

OMG. I feel so slow. Whyyyyy didn't I think of this? Thank youuuuuuuuu!

[@jathinmeduri9850]

really the best video ever made on imovie ever.Thanks alot...

[@pleaseplantme-lawnmowingse3859]

Man I really appreciate these videos. This completely changed how I’ll edit videos as well the perception of iMovie mind blown !

[@asia-focus]

yeah I didn't know about importing the Trailer Tricks. Kool Gary

[@womanofgold]

you `are a genius! ive learnt so much from all your imovie videos

[@bryanvanmaalsen2697]

Great tips! Very smart use of the effects. Thanks for sharing! 👍🏾👍🏾

[@PUB5T0MP]

The trailers trick is gold!!! Thanks so much!!!

[@fearlesspet]

Thank you! Definitely the BEST iMovie videos I've seen.

[@Sandratelly]

Fantastic tips, thank You!

[@triconcert]

Great stuff! Thanks a million!

[@petersterrence]

Gary, I agree with the previous comment. "Creative Genius". You've simply shown that using iMovie's existing features and effects can create great artistic videos. Out of the box, iMovie does not show its creative ability, but you have shown you can get very creative with its feature. Thank you.

[@MrMakezy100]

I wish you could like videos multiple times! thanks for all the tips

[@Susanmgrey]

This was SO helpful! I learned a lot from this, thank you so much for the great tips.

[@kumargyanesh1845]

Loving your videos mate!

[@barryscott4551]

Really cool little tips, deffo like the Trailers idea and will be trying out. Thanks Bud.

[@chrisantadelao]

Subscribed because of how useful this video is. Thank you sir for these simple but very effective tricks.

[@apokalupsis27]

i have been on youtube for a minute checking for stuff to teach me.....but bro....i have to hand it to you....you are a genius omg!!! thanks so much....!!

[@TheOilCoach_]

Incredible tricks! Thank you!

[@sannefridolin]

Excellent tips, thanks!

[@michaelkukura6208]

Such valuable info, thanks

[@diehardDanny]

Very useful information, thank you. And thanks to the information about keyframe manipulation of which I had no idea it even exists, I was able to create a custom vertical slide transition which is missing in iMovie.

[@guitarhvac]

Awesome tips! Thanks so much.

[@beachyTravels]

WOW! AMAZING! YOU'VE HELPED ME SO MUCH. THANK YU

[@thehungrytourist328]

very useful, thank you!

[@deanniejanowitz5560]

Fantastic! Thank you! Amazing! 🙂

[@paule2040]

So much valuable information thank you ✊🏼👍🏼

[@easyheal3657]

I have been using iMovie for years but didn't know not even one trick you showed. Simply mind blowing. Thanks you so muck. may Allah bless you. Ameen

[@JacarandaMusic]

Absolutely amazing.

[@canalwriting4723]

Clever tricks! Thanks for sharing.

[@Guevarra5]

Wow , thank you ! This is very helpful .

[@StacyNosplatica]

wow wow I did'nt know these tricks these are wonderful, thank you for sharing it is very useful ! You are amazing ! Greetings

[@RCRVadventures]

Genius! Thanks for sharing!

[@iyoutome]

So awesome... thanks bro!.. You've given me some thoughts for doing crude short film animations... ❤🙏😊

[@comedykeith4592]

Leanring so much from you, thanks.

[@lavaltshibanda4373]

i really liked this one. thanks

[@r.c.reidfilms]

thank you so much!

[@huntervickers3345]

Love this channel

[@mdsoulsounds]

Thank you Gary. Great ideas after I spent several days trying to learn DaVinci Resolve, when the free version overloads the cpu to stutter run badly, with only images, not videos. iMovie runs without a bump albeit with very limited features.

[@absfindings4258]

Watched many but yours is the best video....

[@FarmsVilla]

Dude you just blew me away! New subscriber here. 👍🏻

[@Blessieabcdefg123456]

So cool...... thanks

[@softech4335]

wonderful thanks

[@Haribollll]

That was fabulous

[@BobCaseyAerial]

Wow, some features i nvr knew existed... Thanks again

[@sikanoashi3879]

wow!! i'm not sure you have a competition... Love your brains.

[@bcc77]

👍 great job

[@Carloslycare]

ホントに素晴らしい！

[@moneybaggz910]

Awesome!!!!!!!

[@LaurelBeard]

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sherab108]

You're the man! You must be on your Mac 20 hours a day! lol

[@roronhnl]

Thanks!

[@SarkazzHere]

thank you!

[@7diario]

Good job

[@thinkthearts2604]

Great

[@roholdt]

😀 thanks

[@michaelmarrison6939]

Thanks Gary. Brilliant tutorial. Having watched many of your iMovie tutorials and taken your iMovie course, I still have a particular problem with transitions. If I use the Cross Dissolve transition in between two video clips, the duration of the video clips is shortened by a couple of seconds. Any thoughts? Thanks Michael

[@macmost]

Yes. If you have two 30 second clips, and have a 1 second transition, then it uses the last second of your first clip and the first second of your last clip in that overlapping time for the transition. So the result is a 59-second final video.

[@VBForbes]

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE FOR YOUR MINIONS THAT YOU WOULD SPEND ALL THOSE HOURS DIGGING INTO IMOVIE

[@ToniWall]

How do you use a second monitor to extend your workspace in iMovie? I just bought a Lepow Portable Monitor and I can’t figure out why it is useful. How do you move something to the second screen? How do you select what to move over? I can’t manipulate anything on the second screen. How do you move it back over if you want to rearrange your screens?

[@bc1248]

I need to learn how to edit keynote clips into a movie in iMovie. This is what my mission is now.

[@BillRiski]

Gary - Loved the tip about using trailers to expand the scope of creating titles for a movie. However, I could not edit the trailer content after converting and adding it to a movie. I had to edit it first in the trailer. Has this changed with recent releases? Kind of a pain.

[@macmost]

I don't think it has changed. Maybe try again when you get a chance. Or it could have been the particular elements you chose.

[@eslresources]

Wow awesome video! I have subscribed. Question - how do you get your face in the video, you have it in the right hand corner. I would like to do that also. Thanks for great information.

[@macmost]

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[@271830066]

Great Video,... Gary, How can I view my iMovie on Apple TV or a Samsung TV

[@macmost]

On Apple TV you can use AirPlay mirroring to show almost anything on your Mac's screen. Or, you can play the exported video into the TV app and use Home Sharing in System Preferences, Sharing to access a video on Apple TV. I don't think there is an easy way to do it with a Samsung. You could always just upload to KZbin and watch it in the KZbin app (assuming you are a smart Samsung TV with apps).

[@johncipolla8335]

I do shorts with my puppy and put them up on you tube. I have been wanting to learn this for a while now these types of videos don't need to be saved

[@LumpyMoose]

Excellent, but where I got stuck is with imovie on iPad. I couldn’t figure out how to completely delete a project once finished, it still appeared to take a tonne of space. In the end I think I had to uninstall & reinstall imovie to get rid of a project.

[@BlueBobbin]

Great video, I am struggling to convert the trailer to movie on my phone 😭😭😭 I don’t have a MacBook

[@esrayildirim3700]

Thank your your great videos. Can you please share how to add some nice of clips into videos? Thanks :)

[@macmost]

Not sure what you are asking.

[@MayfieldRestorations]

Hi Gary, first time watching and subscribed. Great content and easy to follow. I'm looking for editing tips to improve my own youtube content. I was actually looking for tips on how to create an illusion on my video's eg. a screw being screwed in but no visible hand or screwdriver. Ive seen it on other videos buy no idea how to achieve it??!! 😁😁PS - I use Imovie to edit my stuff.

[@macmost]

Not familiar with any way to do that. I suppose if you wore a free glove and used a green screen. Or, if you did it with stop-motion...

[@MayfieldRestorations]

@@macmost Hi Gary, thanks very much for replying. Its really effective when its done, i'll look into it further and read up on Stop Motion. Thanks again and great channel 😀👍

[@mcardio1287]

Thanks a lot. It was excellent as the rest of your collection. How is possible to add Vido at a corner, like your educative files. Vido in vido

[@macmost]

I do that using my screen recording software, ScreenFlow. If you want to just do that with prerecorded video, you could do it in iMovie with the Picture-In-Picture feature. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6e9modoorCsia8

[@mcardio1287]

@@macmost thanks a lot. It was very helpful

[@lupeehandluciohandicraft2020]

...thank you

[@harrisongerry1307]

Hi Gary Thanks for the info. I made a movie using photographs with transitions titles etc. saved it to ext hd. movie lib. It shows as mp4, but the file name shows MPEG-4 movie. I wish to insert the movie into a Pages document, which I plan to save in the Epub format. Is this the best way to have good quality and allow the reader to view the movie? Thanks for your comments.

[@macmost]

Just try it with the mp4 video (mp4 = MPEG-4). See if that works for you and your audience. If not, you may have to try things and research some more. I don't create ePub documents so I can't be of much help.

[@southavequeen5285]

I don’t have all those trailers on my iPhone or iPad. Is this just for the iMac if so I ain’t got all them on my iMac

[@everyactreact2907]

Can this be achieved using iphone?

[@macmost]

Some, maybe, but not all.

[@YogawithKateNirlipta]

Hey Gary, thank you, maybe you or anyone will know the answer to how I can put a link to my website and KZbin channel on my IMovie vid, thanks in advance :)

[@macmost]

Videos are videos. There is no way to have a "button" or something in a video that is a link. But a platform can display videos and also have link functionality. Like KZbin allows you to place links at times in the video or in the description.

[@JeffyG]

Great tips! I’m using Ken Burns to zoom in, then again to zoom out, but struggling to crop the middle clip size to match. Is there a trick to consistently sizing the crop in a series of clips?

[@mincedmedia9964]

You are able to do this if you go to the original "control" clip, copy, then go to the next clip and go to edit > paste adjustments >crop. Hope this helps :)

[@JeffyG]

@@mincedmedia9964 thanks! I DID see that copy paste feature in another of your excellent videos. I’ll give it a try.

[@JacarandaMusic]

And you can reverse the start and end boxes, so having pasted the previous adjustment, go to the next clip, reverse the boxes, the old end box becomes the new start and the transition is completely smooth.

[@tombaker_]

Gary when I have a pop up on my video in I movie my video goes black but shows the like/subscribe pop up. What causes that to happens? Thanks for all your tips!

[@macmost]

Not sure. Are you using an overlay on top of your video? Sounds like the overlay isn't transparent, but instead has a black background.

[@tombaker_]

@@macmost yes overlay. Happens on m3 pro MacBook but works find on m1 Mac

[@macmost]

@@tombaker_ So the image IS transparent, and it works on one Mac but not another? Not sure what would cause this. Do you see it when you export the video, or only in the preview when working in iMovie?

[@tombaker_]

@@macmost it happens in preview and the published version I put out. Software is updated on both Mac and Mac Pro. Restarted. Created new library. Looked at all settings on both iMovie at same time to see if I had something off. This animation I’ve used over and over for months on my videos-I didn’t edit it

[@macmost]

@@tombaker_ Not sure what the problem could be then. Keep trying things.

[@lorraineh6460]

Hi Gary, please do a video on how to place a block of color ONLY behind your title. This makes the title pop. Not a banner, but a block of color. Many videos on KZbin do this, but there are no how-to videos. I called Apple's Creative Dept., and they said only way is to do a "picture in a picture." Please advise. Thanks much,

[@macmost]

I responded to your other comment.

[@northcentralchurchofchrist3324]

I am trying to add a website link to my imovie project saying click here so when I share it on a website such as facebook it take you to my website is this possible?

[@macmost]

No. Video files don't have links in them. After you upload them to a site (like KZbin) the site may have that function as an overlay, but it isn't something you do in iMovie.

[@lesgill8490]

Gary, after I finish and edit my project on iMovies, I can copy to dvd, but it will not play on a TV, I have tried TOAST SOFTWARE also but no luck, can you advise please, from across the pond U.K. HELP.

[@macmost]

You can't just put a video on a disc. That's just a file on a data disc. You need to create specially-formatted video DVDs for use in DVD players. The video needs to be converted to a special format from the 1990s. You can get software to do that in the Mac App Store. Toast will do it, but you need to create a video DVD, and not a data one.

[@juspassinthru]

There are quite a few dvd authoring apps on the mac app store, but they all get really lousy reviews, from 1 to 2 stars. I have tried out several of them, and my advice is: don’t waste your money. I am using DvdStyler, and I am quite happy with it. It is free and open source and you can get it from sourceforge.

[@jackrodgersjr]

I’ve projected videos created with iPhone onto a 60 Inch LCD tv using an HDMI cable from my iPhone. No special video format needed. Seeing my iPad movie blown up to 60 inch...wow. I used the HDMI to Lighnight adapter for this. However, I now use USB C and haven’t tried it but there should be no problem showing plain iPhone video on the TV with just an HDMI adapter or hub.

[@EugeniaBurkes]

Why do I have trouble editing titles?

[@kingrobert1st]

Since when has iMovie been free? I paid for it.