Create iMovie titles or watermarks with creative overlays
iMovie ’11 offers many options for styling title text—more than you probably realized. But what if you want even more control over how text appears? Or maybe you want a custom graphic or logo to appear in the corner of your video. With an image editor and a small amount of trickery, you can easily do so.
Step 1: Create the image
The secret to making this technique work is to create your title or graphic as an image that you can import into an iMovie project. In Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Acorn, or another image editor, do the following:
1. Create a new file (File > New) set to the dimensions of your video. If you captured 720p footage, for example, the resolution would be a width of 1280 and height of 720; if you shot 1080p, the resolution would be 1440 by 1080. (Adobe’s applications offer several video presets, which also add guides to alert you to areas where the image may be cropped in some players.) If you’re given the option to specify a background color, choose Transparent.
2. Create your titles and content where you want them to appear on the screen. If you didn’t specify a transparent background earlier, delete or hide the background.
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