Hi guys and welcome back to my channel. So this year you've decided that you want to
start recording videos and sharing them on social media channels such as YouTube, or you've already
made a start and you want to start learning how to add some really professional touches
such as adding a video overlay over a video. So in this video I'm going to show you exactly how to do
that step by step using iMovie which was the first video editing software I used when I made a start
on YouTube. If we've not met before my name is Nicky Pasquier and I teach small businesses
how to use creative marketing strategies to successfully grow their businesses online
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know when I publish a new video. Right so if you're ready to learn let's go over to iMovie.
Make sure you have iMovie opened up and that you have two videos uploaded to work with.
The first video I've already added to my timeline and the second video is the one that I'm going to
create the video overlay with. This might be some B-roll to add more interest and movement to your
video or you might want to reference a previous video that you created that your audience might
want to check out. First of all you're going to place the playhead which is this line here
where you want to insert your video overlay. Now drag and drop the second video onto the timeline
and it will drag and drop where you've added your playhead. So now you have two videos on your video
timeline. I can see that the video overlay has a lot of sound in it which I don't want so the first
thing I'm going to do is select the video overlay, and it should be surrounded by a yellow line,
go up to the iMovie toolbar which is right here. To remove the audio, click on the volume button
and click on the speaker icon to mute it. You don't have to mute it, you can also
reduce the volume of that video overlay audio but for now I'm going to completely mute it.
Still with a video overlay selected I'm going to edit it so that it appears in the top right hand
corner of my screen. Currently it's overlapping the entire video and I want to see the video
underneath. So still with the video overlay selected I'm going to go back up to the toolbar
and select this little icon here which is the video overlay settings. On the left hand side
you'll find a little downward arrow which I want you to click on and from the drop-down menu go
to the bottom and select 'Picture in Picture'. The video overlay now becomes like a smaller
thumbnail image over the top of my original video. You can edit this thumbnail in various ways.
You can resize it by selecting the thumbnail until you see these little corner dots
grab a hold of one of the corners with your cursor and pull it out to resize the thumbnail
Hover your mouse over the top of the thumbnail until you see a four arrowed cursor,
hold the cursor down over the thumbnail and drag it into your chosen position.
So I'm just going to increase the size of this a little bit. You can also edit the thumbnail by
selecting how you want it to appear over the top of your video. So with it still selected
go to the left hand side and find the Transition menu which is just here, click on the downward
arrow and from here select whether you want the video overlay to appear gradually or dissolve,
to zoom in or to swap entirely with your current video. I'm going to select zoom
and I'm now going to edit the transition duration to one second by placing my cursor in this little
box here and just typing '1' in the box, and then return. Looking across the right hand side
you can add a border to your video overlay, select whether you want a thin border or a thick border,
select the colour of your border by clicking on this box here. And that will bring up this
colour menu so select whichever colour you'd like. You can also select to add a shadow.
And if you want to add some really special effects go to the toolbar again, click on this button here
which is 'Clip Filter and Audio Effects', place your cursor in this box here to select a filter
from the menu on the left hand side. And if you hover your mouse over each filter
you can see the kind of effect that it has. I think I'm going to find a black and white filter.
Click on the filter thumbnail to select it. And to add an audio effect I'm going to place
my cursor in this box here and then choose one of the audio effects from the left hand side.
I'm going to cancel that because I don't want to add any audio effects at all.
Once you're done editing place your video play head to just before where the video
overlay appears and play through your video to see how it looks.
And you can go ahead and you can change it as many times as you want
are growing your YouTube channel is to create an animated subscribe button. You really don't have
to pay someone to do that unless you can afford to do so, so have a look at the video that I created
a little while ago, you'll find the link right here. And then maybe after that perhaps check out
how to create automatic YouTube captions for your videos so that people can still enjoy your videos
while having the sound off. And you'll find the link to that tutorial just there. Thank you so
much for watching, don't forget to subscribe to my channel and i will see you next time.