In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to take an animation you've created
an Apple Keynote and use it in an iMovie project to really take your video
creation skills up a notch hey it's Mike back with more tips and tutorials to
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miss a thing you know iMovie is a great little video
editing application that has a lot of the functionality you'd find in
higher-end more expensive video editing software but iMovie has a few weak spots
when big one is graphics you really don't have much to work with out of the
box with iMovie however you do have a lot to work with in Apple Keynote the
presentation software that comes bundled with a new Mac now if you've seen any of
my other keynote tutorial videos you know a keynote is much more than just
presentation software it's a powerful video graphics and animation package in
this tutorial we're going to take a commonly used video animation an
animated lower-third created in Apple Keynote and use it in
an iMovie project to give your videos a professional touch let's get started all
right we're gonna start here in the keynote and I'm using keynote version
8.1 on Mac OS 10 point 13 point 6 now the example I'm using for this tutorial
is this simple lower third animation I created using keynotes built-in graphics
tools and animations I'm going to play this lower third animation so you can
see it in action so I'm just going to go up to the top bar here and under play
I'll select play slideshow and we'll drop into slideshow mode and my lower
third animation plays I'll hit these key to get out of the slideshow mode and
back into the editing interface now you'll notice I have this image here in
the background of my project of the background of my slide this is a frame
of video I exported from my iMovie project that I used as a size and
position reference for building my lower third animation here in keynote to
export this frame of video out of my iMovie project I just positioned the
playhead in the timeline on the frame I wanted to export then went up to the top
right of the iMovie interface and selected the share button and from the
pop-up menu I selected image and that exported my selected frame on the
timeline as a JPEG image then I just brought that image into keynote and
placed it in the background of my slide for reference when I built the lower
third animation alright let's actually export this lower third animation out of
keynote and bring it into iMovie now this is essentially a two-step process
the first step is to remove the background of your slide this will make
the background of your exported animation see-through or transparent
allowing you to successfully overlay the lower third animation on top of your
video in iMovie to remove the background of the slide I'm going to make sure that
I don't have any objects selected on the slide first and I'll do that by clicking
off of the slide then I'm gonna bring up the format properties by selecting this
paintbrush button here in format properties you go down to background and
right now image fill is selected and the image
filling the background is my reference image so I'm gonna select the background
menu and from the list I'm gonna select no fill the background of my slide is
now empty and you know that it's empty by this red slash symbol right here okay
so that's step one removing the slide background
step two is exporting my lower third animation as a video file I can use
an iMovie and to do that I'm gonna go up to file export to movie and I'll get
this export menu from the playback option this drop down here I'll select
self playing now why would I select that well let's cancel out of this export
dialog and I'll show you why so we're back here in the keynote editing
interface with my lower third animation I'm gonna go up to the top here and
select the animate button which brings up this animation or build panel I'm
gonna drop down to the bottom here and select the build order button which
brings up the build order panel so why am i showing you this
well this is the sequence of all the animations that make up my lower third
animation so take a look at the bottom part of the panel as I click through
each of these animations or builds you see under start that all of these
animations start on their own one after the other with various time delay as you
can see here which means they don't need to be triggered manually they play by
themselves in other words they are self playing which is why if we return to the
QuickTime export settings
under playback we select self-playing I'll ignore these settings the go to
next slide after and go to next build after you use these if you set your
animations to advance manually in the build panel next I'll select the
resolution for my exported QuickTime movie from the drop-down menu I'm going
to select custom now in most cases you want this to match the resolution of
your slides my slides are 1920 by 1080 resolution so I'll enter that into these
fields
all right down here we have compression type this is the most important setting
now remember I want the background of my lower third animation to be transparent
so that I can overlay it onto my video in iMovie distort transparency
information in the QuickTime movie I export out of keynote that QuickTime
movie needs to contain what's called an alpha channel an alpha Channel tells
other software what parts of an image are transparent and what parts are not
transparent or opaque so looking at our choices here which one of these
compression types gives me an alpha Channel well it's this one at the bottom
here Apple ProRes 4444 so how do I know this gives me an alpha
channel the for force the first three fours represent color information RGB
red green and blue the fourth four represents an alpha Channel I need an
alpha Channel so I'll select Apple ProRes 4444 now keep in mind Apple
ProRes 4444 produces big file sizes because there's next to no compression
happening on the export but it's the only compression type with an alpha
channel which is what I need so I'll hit next that brings up this save dialog
I'll save my file to the desktop give it a name
and select export and keynote will export my lower-third animation as a
QuickTime movie with an alpha Channel alright let's hop over to iMovie so I
have this video clip on the timeline I'm gonna grab the lower third animation I
exported out of keynote and lay it on top of this video so I'll find that
QuickTime file and drag and drop it on top of the video clip in the timeline so
let's play this section and see what we've got
and there is my lower-third animation playing nicely over top of my video
because of that alpha Channel here's the final render of my iMovie project
including the lower third animation created in keynote
the ability to combine or composite keynote graphics and animations into
your iMovie projects is a powerful technique that opens up a whole new
world of creative possibilities for your iMovie videos well that's it for this
video I hope you found value in it and if you want more tips and tutorials for
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