Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let's look at animating objects in iMovie.
So using iMovie 10 I'm going to show you how to do some simple animation using Picture-in-Picture
and KeyFrames in iMovie.
So as an example we're just going to use some photos here.
I'm going to drag and drop this photo in and then I'm going to take another photo and drag
and drop that as a cutaway on top there.
What I want to do with both of these is I want to change the cropping so it is just
Crop and not the Ken Burns thing and now we just basically see a movie where we have this
video with this photo here.
Then it gets replaced with this photo and then I'm going to change that to a Picture-in-Picture.
Now we can see it there in the corner.
So it appears in the corner and then disappears again.
I'm even going to go in and change the dissolve to nothing.
So it just basically appears and then disappears.
So nothing too exciting so far.
But if I have the Picture-in-Picture selected down here and I have the Picture-in-Picture
adjustments turned on, the video overlay settings, I should see this interface that allows me
to add an animated keyframe.
So animation keyframe are basically saying that this Picture-in-Picture needs to be at
this spot at this point in time down here.
So if I press this it will add a keyframe.
Now I can move forward in time to another spot, select the Picture-in-Picture there
and then I can move the Picture-in-Picture again there we go to another spot and it will
create another keyframe.
I can move here and it will create a third keyframe.
I can move through these keyframes by using these arrows and you can see it actually moving
the playback head.
When I play back the video you can see it will actually animate from spot to spot and
stop at the last one.
It is kind of weird to do it with photos like this but let me show you a better example.
So now I have a video of some ducks here and I've brought in a semi-transparent graphic
that I created in Pixelmator with just a circle and a transparent background.
You can create it in Photoshop or whatever you have handy.
So I'm going to select that.
I going to turn off the Ken Burns effect here and I'm also going to change it so that it
is a Picture-in-Picture.
So now it is a lot smaller and I can resize it to what I want.
What I would like to do is follow a duck along.
I'll move all the way back to the beginning here.
I also have some dissolve here and I want to turn that off.
So I can see it at the very beginning and let's have it follow say this duck who moves
quite a bit.
So now we can have it follow the duck by simply kind of moving it along and then adding keyframes
where we need.
So let's move the duck along there.
Great.
So I'll move this over here and add a keyframe.
I'll move it a little further and it is automatically going to add keyframes now after I've started
doing this.
I'm going to do it every so often kind of keeping pace with the duck since the duck
is moving at slightly different speeds and not in a perfectly straight line.
So now when I playback the movie it should follow the duck.
I think all I'm missing here is a good keyframe at the very beginning.
Let me do that.
Now there we go.
The circle is following the duck along pretty nicely.
At any point I can add more key frames, if I want, in the middle do better follow the
duck if it is lagging behind.
I can just use these arrows to move through all of the keyframes.
If I wanted to add one in the middle I can simply position the playhead somewhere in
the middle, like that, and make an adjustment and it will add the keyframe there.