Alter the background of a clip in iMovie

In iMovie on iPhone,iPad, iPod touch, or Mac apply the green-screen effect to change the background of your video.

With the dark-green-screen effect in iMovie, you can superimpose a video clip over a groundwork video clip, photo, or other image. First, record your subject area in front of a dark-green or bluish screen. Next, add that prune above the background prune in the iMovie timeline. So, employ the green-screen consequence in iMovie so the groundwork clip is visible behind your subject.

Record video in front of a green or blue screen

Record video with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or some other photographic camera in front of a green or blue screen. If the subject of your video is green or is wearing greenish, record in front of a blue background. If the subject area of your video is blue or is wearing blue, record in forepart of a green background.

Use the green-screen effect in iMovie on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Adjust the green screen effect on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Later on y'all've added the green-screen effect, you can make adjustments. Tap the green-screen clip y'all desire to adjust in the timeline, and then utilize any of the green-screen controls to brand adjustments:

  • To change the amount of green or blue removed from a green-screen clip, tap the Arrange button, so drag the Strength slider left or right.
  • To ingather parts of a light-green-screen clip, tap the Mask button, and so drag the corners.

Use the green-screen effect in iMovie on Mac

  1. With your projection open up, add the background video prune or still image to the timeline.
  2. Add the green-screen prune in a higher place the background prune in the timeline.
  3. Trim and move the background video prune to match the length of your green-screen clip. Considering the clips are connected, the ii clips move together when you rearrange clips in the timeline.
  4. If the video overlay controls aren't shown, click the Video Overlay Settings button above the viewer, then choose Green/Blue Screen from the popular-up menu.
    In the viewer, iMovie removes the light-green or blue from the green-screen prune to reveal the background clip behind your subject. Because the clips are continued, the 2 clips motion together if you rearrange clips in the timeline.

The color that iMovie removes is based on the ascendant color in the frame at the position of the playhead when you choose Green/Bluish Screen from the pop-upwardly menu. If the frame below the playhead isn't representative of the residual of the clip, reposition the playhead and reapply the effect.

Accommodate the green screen effect on Mac

After you've added the dark-green-screen affect, y'all tin can brand adjustments. Select the dark-green-screen clip in the timeline, click the Video Overlay Settings push button , then use any of the green-screen controls to make adjustments.

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