Modify the groundwork of a clip in iMovie

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

With the green-screen effect in iMovie, you can superimpose a video prune over a background video clip, photo, or other epitome. Outset, record your subject in front of a light-green or blue screen. Next, add that clip above the groundwork clip in the iMovie timeline. Then, use the dark-green-screen outcome in iMovie and then the background clip is visible behind your subject.

Record video in front of a greenish or blue screen

Record video with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or another photographic camera in front of a green or blueish screen. If the field of study of your video is light-green or is wearing green, tape in front of a blue background. If the subject of your video is blue or is wearing bluish, record in front end of a dark-green groundwork.

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

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

Afterwards you lot've added the green-screen effect, you lot tin make adjustments. Tap the green-screen clip y'all want to suit in the timeline, and so use any of the green-screen controls to brand adjustments:

  • To change the amount of light-green or bluish removed from a greenish-screen clip, tap the Adjust push button, then drag the Forcefulness slider left or right.
  • To crop parts of a light-green-screen clip, tap the Mask button, then drag the corners.

Use the green-screen effect in iMovie on Mac

  1. With your project open, add the background video clip or withal image to the timeline.
  2. Add together the greenish-screen prune higher up the background clip in the timeline.
  3. Trim and movement the background video clip to lucifer the length of your light-green-screen clip. Because the clips are continued, the 2 clips motion 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 cull Greenish/Blue Screen from the pop-upwardly menu.
    In the viewer, iMovie removes the green or blue from the light-green-screen clip to reveal the background clip behind your field of study. Because the clips are continued, the two clips move together if you rearrange clips in the timeline.

The color that iMovie removes is based on the dominant color in the frame at the position of the playhead when yous cull Dark-green/Blue Screen from the pop-up menu. If the frame below the playhead isn't representative of the rest of the clip, reposition the playhead and reapply the upshot.

Adjust the greenish screen upshot on Mac

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

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