hello and welcome to my channel the computer lab in this video I'm going to
show you how to move a static image using keyframes in iMovie so if you're
wanting to learn how to create a video similar to the one in the middle with a
static image with movement applied using keyframes please carry on watching hello
and welcome to the computer lab so today's video we are going to be looking
at keyframe in in iMovie on your Mac okay so I'm gonna start off obviously
got iMovie already open and I am going to select a video clip this is just a
clip that I downloaded from the internet while that's free to use and it's just a
bar of uses in the previous video so it's basically showing people sat at a
bar with a stationary camera so I'm gonna drop that into a timeline
obviously you'll have something different and also I'm going to use this
football here this again is a PNG that I created on the Mac so if you want to see
how to create a PNG on a Mac just go to one of my previous videos how to create
a PNG on the Mac for free okay so let's get this PNG dragged on for timeline so
the PNG that I've just dragged in I'm gonna drag that the full length so it
matches the clip underneath and what iMovie does it applies a standard
template when you drag some of PNG this to have a file in it gives it this zoom
effect which will we will remove in a second so I'll go to the cropping tool
at the top click on the cropping tool door when it cropped and we also want to
click on fit so it fits within a designated box and we also need to click
on the video overlay settings tab click on that one we don't want to cut away
click on there and go picture-in-picture so place it that overlays our picture on
top of the video and the crop tool tells it that we want to fit within this box
so it can resize it if we want I'm gonna have it probably about that big and then
we need to go to the start of of the video let me just highlight the clip
that I want the image I want and I'm going to drag the football to say let's
say here I'm gonna put it about that
okay and then we'll get to the beginning of the video and also you'll notice
these little tabs on the top of the video timeline here these are the fade
in tabs so if I'm gone to the ball now you see as I start from the video and as
I come across it starts to fade and if I drag that little blue dots across that
then fades it in very slow I don't want any fade in so I'm just gonna drag right
to the end and both ends will do the same okay so
we've got that now so now I need to start adding the keyframes so wherever
you wanted to start the movement on your image you need to select that point on
your timeline I'm gonna start roughly about the beginning I'm going to start
by out here just as it starts and start to move so this is the first point of
the keyframe so again we need to go up to the top menu again and he's click on
the video overlay settings and we need to make sure that this keyframe box is
ready for us to go so that hover over the top of the keyframe it all gives the
option to add a new keyframe if I'd already started the process I got the
option to delete the keyframe and the way the keyframe works in iMovie it does
it all automatically once you start the process so the idea is to start the
keyframe where you wanted to start the movement so I'm going to start mine here
so I'm going to click on that so now I've started the process I need to play
the video to the point where I want it my next movement to stop or start so the
way to get a nice smooth action and keyframing is to look at your timeline
time counter and look at the seconds that's ticking by and that will give you
the smooth point point as you go along so I'll explain how to do that now so as
i zoom in on the time I'll show you I'm gonna push the space bar to push play
and I've already told it I'm doing the keyframe at this point so I'm not
clicked anything else when we push the space bar to play I'm gonna do about
three seconds I think i'ma stop now I'm at the three seconds point and now I
need to drag my ball to where it's going to go to
I'm going to drag that straight up and then let go so that now I don't expect
anything else I move he now knows that within them three seconds it wants to go
from that position up to the top position okay so now I'm going to go to
no three seconds stop there and I'm gonna drag the ball back down so now
it's gonna go to about that so I'm gonna do this a couple of times so I going in
or three seconds and I'm basically just gonna do that a couple more times so
when you left-click on your mouse and drag and as soon as you let go that
tells iMovie that's where the keyframe is and drag again now there are reason
I'm doing three seconds it just sort of movements move if I did let the video
play longer and the movement would be slower because it were going from one
point to the other within the time that you decide to move your keyframe so now
I've done that movement the ball will go up down up down I'll play it well that's
the beginning then we'll start a new keyframe to finish the process off so I
move up to beginning the video push play so you see that's the first three
seconds on to free then lower three seconds gonna hit the bar then back up
again no three seconds and then back down to its endpoint okay so I'm happy
with that and now I'm gonna have another keyframe and you can also take the off
screen so what I'm gonna do is possibly bounce the ball up here bounce it off
the top and then shoot it off the screen and I might do that within two seconds
so the ball goes quicker so again I'm watching the counter here and I'm going
to start my keyframe off so back again up to the video overlay settings tab
click on that one way if your keyframe to be shown so I can add me starting my
keyframe at this point I think just make sure that I have so that I'm in working
within this layer so I'm gonna add my keyframe so that's the first keyframe so
like so I'm going to do this every two seconds of things I'm starting at 13 so
my next stop is 15 so I'm not lose anything yet push play so that's my end
point so I'm going to go to the side of the screen there you know two seconds
and go to the top and then I'm going to do another two seconds stop there and
then finally in over two seconds so and drag it off the screen for that one I
don't finish in there okay so I'm happy with that so let's get to the beginning
the video let's see what our video looks like so again these are the three second
points or three seconds to the top three seconds back down again
three seconds back up three seconds back down so now we should shoot across to
the left hit this side or left up to the top hit the top and then bounce back
down all the way off the screen okay so that's it that's how to use keyframe in
a movie on your Mac and how to create movement and animate with PNG's
on your Mac I also have done another video which shows you how to create
automatic movements and how to import them into iMovie and that's done within
keynote and that's one how to green-screen in iMovie again on my
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