Subtitles of the Movie

Okay, let's get started and we'll create a title. I'm going to use this first clip on the video track. We've chosen attractive view of a bay in Siscilly for my title. I choose it, because it has a large area of blue and this should make an ideal backdrop for the text. I can see right away that I have a problem. This clip is only about three and a half seconds long and I am going to need much more. To overcome this problem, I'm going to create a still of the bay. Now, later on we have another lesson, which will show you how to create, use, and import stills into iMovie. However, to create a still from a video clip is really easy. First, you need to select the clip you are going to use, in this case the bay. I can select any frame in the clip to become my still. I'm going to choose the first frame. Next, I need to decide how long I want this still to last. I think I'm going to need about 12 seconds for what I want to achieve. To set this time, I'm going to go to the edit menu and choose preferences. Notice this box here, and this is where I can set any time I want. I'll type in 12 and then click okay. Now, I'll go to the edit menu again and select create still clip, or I can click the shift and Apple key together and the letter S. I pressed all, the still I need is placed on the shelf. I'm now going to drag the still from the shelf to the front of the video track and while I'm there, I'll drag the clip of the bay back to the shelf. Now, I need to create a mini sequence for my title, which goes like this. First, I want the bay to be on the screen for a few seconds, then have it fade up and stay on screen for about 4 seconds then I want the title to fade down and leave the Bay on the screen for about 3 more seconds. To achieve this effect, I'll need to split my still into three parts. Part one is going to last for four seconds. So, I'm going to drag the play head down the scrub bar until I can see about 4 seconds on the time indicator. I'll now split the still here by clicking on the Apple key and the letter T, or you can go to the edit menu if you wish. Next, I'm going to drag the play head down to about 9 seconds. Then, I'll go to the edit menu and select split with the play head. This is just to remind you of both of the ways of splitting a clip. Now you can see we have three clips on the video track, all highlighted in yellow. I need to deselect these clips by clicking outside them and then reselect the middle clip before I open the title window. Any previews I see now will be based on the middle clip. I'm going to choose the title effect centered title. Notice, iMovie provides an instant preview of the current text in the small preview window. Before I type a new title, I'm going to choose a font and a font size. To make the text a little more striking, I'll choose the sand font, and I'll move the size bar to it's largest setting. Now, it's time to type in the title, which I'm going to call Italian holiday. I could type in a second line for my title if I wanted to. Let's just preview what we've done so far by clicking on the preview button. I think I want to try a different color for the text. So, I'll go to the color selector and I'll choose yellow. Yes, I think I like that better so I'll leave it there. Now, we need to look at the amount of time we want the title to last. At the moment, the fade up button is at about 20 frames. I'm going to increase this slightly to 25 frames or one second. Notice, the pause button, which remember controls the duration that the text remains on screen, is at a little over one second. I'm going to increase this to about 4 seconds, so the total time for this title will be 5 seconds. I don't need to worry about the direction selector because centered title is a static effect. I also do not need to check the over black box or the QT margin check box. So that's all I need to do. My final step is to drag the preview window down, so it sits squarely over the second bay still right here. Notice, a red bar is being written along the bottom of the slide. This tells me that rendering is now taking place. If you get the placement wrong and the rendering starts on the wrong clip, click on the undo button that is the Apple key and the letter Z and try again. Rendering may take a minute or two depending on how many seconds you've allocated to your title. Obviously, the more seconds you need, the more time it'll take to render. When rendering is finished, you'll notice that the second slide now has a title in it. I can now click on the play button to check my results.