Hi and welcome to the channel.
My name is Megan and, in today's video,
I'll be showing you how you can make beautiful titles
like this...
and this...
for free
in iMovie.
Whether you're trying to get started on YouTube
or you'd just like to up-level your travel videos,
stay tuned,
because I'll be showing you how you can do this
without having to hire an expensive video editor
or upgrade to a tool like Final Cut Pro
or Adobe Premiere,
both valid options,
but they are quite expensive and do have quite the learning curve.
Here's how you can up-level your videos while using the free tool
iMovie.
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Open your web browser and head to canva.com.
I recommend, if you're using a landscape video,
that you click on "Presentations."
Canva is so easy to use, and they give you lots of free photos
and templates.
Next part is simple,
but it's where you need to get just a little bit creative.
You can create any design you want,
change the colors, change the fonts,
and then, download that design to use in iMovie.
Essentially, all that we're going to be doing,
is creating any graphic, image, text, or title that you'd like,
and then downloading it with a transparent background
and then applying it on top of any photos or video footage
in iMovie.
Once you've created your photo or graphic in Canva,
you're going to want to download it as a transparent file
so then you can overlay it on your video clips in iMovie.
Now, there are couple ways to do this:
one involves paying for Canva Premium -
I believe at the time of filming this it's 12.75 a month -
so when you go to download
you'll see that the option to click "Transparent" is grayed out,
unless you've already subscribed to Premium.
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I'm not using Premium, so here is a workaround.
It takes an extra step, but it's going to get you a transparent file
completely for free.
Download your Canva file as a regular PNG or JPEG image
and then upload it to the tool LunaPic.
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Once it's been uploaded to LunaPic,
navigate to the function for "Transparent."
Once it's been added here as transparent,
you can see there are still some white blotches,
so, what you'll want to do is go to "Transparent" color
instead of "Transparent Area."
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Then click "Apply" and download the image.
You can now overlay it onto your videos.
Once the image has been downloaded
with a transparent background from LunaPic,
you're going to open up iMovie,
find it in your finder,
and then drag it over the photo or video clip
that you'd like to show the graphic.
If you don't want the image to be zooming in and out,
then remove the Ken Burns and, instead, put the image to fit.
If you want it to be in a certain area on the screen,
as opposed to right big in the middle,
head over and put it as "Picture in Picture."
You can now drag it and put it anywhere on the screen that you would like
as well as change the size.
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By taking this extra step to first create the graphic in Canva
and then to download it and upload it to LunaPic,
it's going to be completely free to add any of your creations
to your videos in iMovie.
Following a similar process,
something else that you can do in iMovie
is have graphics that move like this...
It's very similar. You're going to create a graphic in Canva,
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create the transparent background through LunaPic...
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Once back in iMovie, you'll take Ken Burns off
put them to fit, switch it to "Picture in Picture,"
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and then move these clips to a very short duration -
0.5 of a second is usually what I would go for.
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Copy that graphic and then move things around slightly.
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You'll then put the clips side by side
and duplicate them.
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So, copy, paste, copy, paste,
so that they're recurring in a sequence back and forth, back and forth...
It will look like the graphics are moving
when really, it's just two separate images,
all lined up at very short durations.
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Or you can create title transitions that move,
like this...
All you have to do is create your graphic in Canva,
duplicate it onto a second page,
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move some of the elements around slightly,
download both of these images and then upload them to iMovie.
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Make each clip very short and then place the side by side,
and rotate back and forth.
So, it looks like the images are moving
when really you're just using two separate files,
with different placement of graphics,
side by side, quickly.
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An awesome tip with Canva is that they have all of these free templates.
So, whether you're trying to create graphics or titles,
or even, say, just create a resume or a media kit or a business card,
you can go and use these templates.
They have premium ones, which are absolutely fantastic,
but you have to pay every time that you go to download them.
Or so I thought.
You're not actually paying for the layout, the templates or the colors,
all you're paying for are the premium images.
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So, what you have to do
is delete the image that comes with the template and either add your own
or head to a website like Unsplash,
where you can pick through all of these different images
and download and use them for free.
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Once it's been downloaded, upload it to Canva,
add it to your template,
and the download the premium template completely free.
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By using a free tool like Canva,
you can create pretty much anything,
download it for free,
and then upload it to a tool like LunaPic,
make the transparent background
and be able to add little text elements or photos like this...
and this...
or full-on titles like this...
It was a bit of a random video on my channel
but, hopefully, it will help you create travel videos
as epic as the actual travel itself.
That was super cheesy.
And that is my cue to leave.
I put out new videos every single week.
Hope to catch you next week.
Have a good one and happy travels.