If you want to learn how to overlay videos in iMovie to get that really cool picture
in picture effect then this video is for you.
Stay tuned.
It's probably a lot easier than you think.
So to make a picture in picture video or a video overlay what you want to do is have
some video already in the timeline and then select some video from your library to drag
on top of it so we have this aerial footage here in the timeline and we also have this
video of clouds up here.
We're going to take that cloud video, drag it on top of so above the aerial video and
let go.
So we see without us doing anything else the video just appears over top so what we need
to do is select that clip so that is yellow around the edges and go up to this button
here and will click that and just down below that button we should see where it says cut
away now picture in picture.
We click on that and there we go.
We have the picture in picture effect so we can see now that if we play at the beginning
that video of the sky is playing over top of the video looking down from the sky so
that actually looks pretty good as is but what if we want to adjust a picture a picture
clip something like the position or the size?
We can do that by going back to this button here and once we click notice that the picture
in picture video or picture of the sky here has some handles on the edges.
So we can click on those to resize the video and we can also reposition the video so we
can drag it down to the bottom left or some other location and notice as you move you
get these really handy yellow guidelines.
So if you want it perfectly center on horizontal or vertical or both you could do that as well.
So in addition to position and scale you'll notice we have the ability to change the effect
that is applied when the clip comes in will leave it to dissolve for now but feel free
to play with that.
You can also add different kinds of borders as well as a shadow.
So now that we look out at our picture in picture as well as how to adjust the settings
of the scale and some of the borders and backgrounds of the picture in picture want we look at
how we can animate it.
So to do that let's start at the beginning of our picture in picture clip.
We’ll have a play for a few seconds then we'll stop the playback by hitting the spacebar
and we’ll go back up to the settings here for video overlay settings and look at this
little controller here.
So when we hit add keyframe which is this button here it's going to add a keyframe at
this point in the playback.
So we're going to add another keyframe just a little bit later something like that and
at that keyframe we're going to change the position and scale so the size of the picture
in picture and have a look with this looks like now.
So you can see that we animated that picture a picture on our video so that it moved from
being in the center and very large to down to the bottom left and a little smaller.
Those are some of the basics of picture in picture video but what about overlaying text
or a logo.
How can you do that and IMovie?
Well luckily the picture in picture feature can be hacked in a way that we can get this
feature as well.
Let's have a look at how we do that.
So we've pulled this Bam logo down off of Google.
We're just going to drop that on top.
So now we can see this enormous Bam logo right in the middle of our video, let’s tweak
it a little though.
We'll go over to that same area we did for picture in picture video overlay settings
and we change that picture in picture just like before and we can see it gets much, much
smaller.
We're going to just drag it into the middle, get it centered.
Now that we have that centered the crop doesn't look quite right so we can actually click
on this little cropped button and click fit and now we should see, there we go we've got
the whole logo now.
What we want to do though is extend it a little bit in the timeline, give ourselves a bit
more room to play with and we want this Bam logo to be bigger so we're going to resize
it now.
There we go.
Now we have that nice big Bam but we probably don't want it to start so big.
We want it to get bigger.
So we've already made it the size we want it to be let's play with those keyframes again.
So again to do the keyframes you select the clip, click on this button.
You'll have your keyframe option here Now before we add the keyframe we want to
make sure our playhead is where we want it and for the effect we are after here I want
it pretty close the beginning.
I'm going to add a keyframe and I'm also going to add one right at the very beginning and
the one of the very beginning we want to make this really small because we want it to sort
of go BAM.
I want it to go from a very small to very big so a really small Bam logo down the center
there to a very big one.
Let’s check it out and see if I got the result.
Bam.
So that's pretty cool but what if we want to be a bit more dynamic well what we can
do is we can add another keyframe just right at the end and for that one we can have it
shrink back down to be small again.
Let's have a look at that.
So you can see the logo moves a little more smoothly now almost reminiscent of the Ken
Burns effect and you could of course have it also move directionally down into one of
the corners for a logo or something like that.
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