This method is a whole lot easier than the usual “picture-in-picture” method in earlier iMovie versions. That means that, when you play your video in the timeline and it comes to the place where you dragged your PNG, you’ll see that your PNG has become an animated title. Only the text will show, of course, and the transparent background won’t show, either. What did iMovie do with your PNG graphic? It applied a title effect automatically likely, because this makes it, technically, a “picture-in-picture” effect by applying an effect. So, now that you’ve placed your PNG “title” above the video in the timeline, you’ll see a square box with black and blue colors. (You’ll note that iMovie puts ALL titles above the video by default anyway).
Next, drag and drop your saved PNG file on TOP of (above) the video (where you want it to appear) and leave it there. Now, put a piece of video on the timeline (if you haven’t already). Keep your graphics program running ( why you should is discussed below). Save the file to an easily accessible place and open iMovie (if you don’t already have it open). PhotoShop: “Save As.” Gimp: “Export As > PNG”.īefore we save it, we’ll name the file “copyright.png”. Using the “Move” tool, move the text layer to the lower part of the graphic, about one-third way from the left. (TIP: Copyright symbol on a Mac: Option+G.
For this post, we’re using the size of 720 pixels by 200 pixels (since all we want to do is put a single line of watermark text in the video).Īlso for this exercise, we’ll put this text in the graphic’s foreground in the traditional text layer that is automatically created by PhotoShop/Gimp, and then make the text white and size it at 12 px: The height of the graphic (which we will save in PNG format) is up to you. If you’re into plain old reading, let’s see my approach.īefore you start, just create a PhotoShop or Gimp document the same as the width of your video. (UPDATE on 01/15.2015) For those allergic to reading, you can find a YouTube video for another approach than which is outlined below. There are a lot of posts about putting in copyright symbols and watermarks and logos in iMovie’s previous iterations, but finding anything about iMovie 10.0.3 or iMovie 11 about doing those things is lacking (at the time of this writing).
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