Add together text to your iMovie project

Add together text to video, photo, or groundwork clips, create a title sequence, and add end credits to your movie.

  • iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon

  • Mac

Add titles and text in iMovie on iPhone or iPad

Add text to any video clip, photo, or background in your project, then edit the text. Yous can also create a title sequence or terminate credits for your motion-picture show.

Add text to a clip

You tin add text to any video, photo, or groundwork clip in the timeline. Just tap the clip, tap the Titles button in the inspector at the bottom of the screen, then tap a title style.

Edit text

After yous add text to a clip, you can edit the text, change where the title appears on-screen, and more than. With your project open, tap the clip, then tap the Titles button in the inspector at the bottom of the screen. You can edit the text, reposition the text, and more:

You lot alter the title style at whatever time, while retaining any edits you've already made:

  1. With your project open, tap the prune in the timeline, then tap the Titles button.
  2. Tap a different title style to preview it in the viewer.

To remove text from a prune, tap the clip, tap the Titles button, then tap None in the title styles that appear.

Create a title sequence or end credits

To create a championship sequence or end credits for your movie, add a background prune to the beginning or end of your movie, then add text to the groundwork prune. iMovie includes a variety of styles, including blithe styles, that you can utilise in your motion-picture show.

  1. With your iMovie project open, scroll the timeline until y'all get to the first or terminate of the moving-picture show.
  2. Tap the Add Media button , tap Backgrounds.
  3. Tap a background, then tap the Add to Project push .
  4. In the timeline, tap the groundwork clip yous just added, then the Titles button in the inspector at the bottom of the screen.iPad iMovie project with background and title inspector open
  5. Tap a title style. The text appears in the viewer above the timeline. To choose a unlike style, just tap a different style in the inspector at the bottom of the screen.
  6. Trim the background clip to the desired length.

You tin can then edit the text, change where the text appears on-screen, and more.

Add together titles and text in iMovie on Mac

Add text to whatever video clip, photograph, or groundwork in your project, then edit the text. You can also create a title sequence or end credits for your movie.

Add text to a clip

Here'due south how to add together text to a video, photo, or background clip in the timeline.

  • Position the playhead where you lot want the text, click Titles to a higher place the browser, and then double-click a style.
  • You can also drag the style to the timeline, over the clip where yous want information technology to appear.

The text is added equally an fastened clip, above the other clip in the timeline.

Edit text

After you add text to a clip, you tin edit the text, modify the font, change where the text appears on-screen, and more than.

  • Double-click the clip with the text in the timeline, type the new the text in the viewer, and so click the Apply button.
  • To alter font blazon, size, and colour, double-click the clip with the text in the timeline, adjust the font controls at the top of the viewer, then click the Apply button when y'all're finished.
  • To set how long the text appears in your movie, motility your arrow to either edge of the prune with the text in the timeline, then drag.
  • To change the style and placement of the text, double-click the championship in the timeline, click Titles above the browser, then double-click the new mode that you want to use. The new style replaces the old one, retaining the duration y'all fix and any adjustments yous made to the text.

Create a title sequence or end credits

iMovie includes a variety of styles, including animated styles, that yous can apply to create a championship sequence or end credits. If you lot've set a theme for your film, titles related to the theme appear at the top of the browser. You lot tin can also add a background if you want your championship sequence background in a colour other than black.

Mac iMovie project with titles inspector open

  1. With your iMovie project open, click the Media Library button  to prove the browser if necessary.
  2. Position the playhead at the first or cease of the movie.
  3. If you desire a background for the title sequence or stop credits other than blackness, click Backgrounds, then double-click the background that you want to employ. Or drag the groundwork to the beginning or end of the timeline. If you don't want a special background, go to the side by side footstep.
    You can also use any other video clip or photo every bit the background.
  4. Click Titles, then double-click the title in the browser that you lot want to use, or drag the title to the timeline. If you used a background or other clip, the championship is added as an attached clip above the other clip in the timeline. With an attached clip, when you move a video clip or photograph, the attached clip moves with it.

You tin then edit the text, change where the text appears on-screen, and more.

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