Add text to your iMovie project

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

  • iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  • Mac

Add titles and text in iMovie on iPhone or iPad

Add text to whatever video clip, photo, or background in your project, and then edit the text. You lot can too create a title sequence or cease credits for your movie.

Add text to a clip

Y'all can add text to any video, photograph, or groundwork prune in the timeline. Just tap the clip, tap the Titles button in the inspector at the lesser of the screen, then tap a championship style.

Edit text

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

You lot change the title mode at any time, while retaining any edits you've already made:

  1. With your project open, tap the clip in the timeline, then tap the Titles push.
  2. Tap a unlike title manner to preview it in the viewer.

To remove text from a clip, tap the clip, tap the Titles push, and then tap None in the championship styles that appear.

Create a title sequence or terminate credits

To create a title sequence or end credits for your movie, add together a background clip to the beginning or end of your movie, and then add text to the groundwork clip. iMovie includes a variety of styles, including animated styles, that you lot can use in your movie.

  1. With your iMovie project open, scroll the timeline until you get to the beginning or terminate of the moving picture.
  2. Tap the Add Media button , tap Backgrounds.
  3. Tap a background, and then tap the Add to Projection push .
  4. In the timeline, tap the background clip you but added, then the Titles push in the inspector at the bottom of the screen.iPad iMovie project with background and title inspector open
  5. Tap a title mode. The text appears in the viewer to a higher place the timeline. To choose a dissimilar style, just tap a different style in the inspector at the bottom of the screen.
  6. Trim the background prune to the desired length.

Yous can then edit the text, modify where the text appears on-screen, and more.

Add titles and text in iMovie on Mac

Add together text to any video clip, photo, or background in your projection, and then edit the text. You tin also create a title sequence or cease credits for your movie.

Add text to a clip

Hither'south how to add text to a video, photograph, or background clip in the timeline.

  • Position the playhead where you want the text, click Titles above the browser, then double-click a style.
  • You tin besides elevate the style to the timeline, over the clip where y'all desire it to appear.

The text is added as an attached clip, in a higher place the other prune in the timeline.

Edit text

After you add text to a prune, you can edit the text, change the font, alter where the text appears on-screen, and more than.

  • Double-click the prune with the text in the timeline, type the new the text in the viewer, and so click the Apply button.
  • To change font type, size, and color, double-click the clip with the text in the timeline, adjust the font controls at the top of the viewer, then click the Apply push when yous're finished.
  • To set how long the text appears in your film, motion your pointer to either edge of the clip with the text in the timeline, then elevate.
  • To alter the style and placement of the text, double-click the title in the timeline, click Titles higher up the browser, so double-click the new manner that you want to use. The new style replaces the onetime one, retaining the elapsing you set up and whatsoever adjustments you made to the text.

Create a championship sequence or stop credits

iMovie includes a variety of styles, including animated styles, that you lot can use to create a title sequence or end credits. If you've ready a theme for your movie, titles related to the theme announced at the top of the browser. You lot can also add a background if yous want your title sequence background in a color other than black.

Mac iMovie project with titles inspector open

  1. With your iMovie projection open, click the Media Library button  to testify the browser if necessary.
  2. Position the playhead at the beginning or end of the film.
  3. If yous want a background for the title sequence or cease credits other than blackness, click Backgrounds, so double-click the background that yous desire to use. Or elevate the background to the commencement or end of the timeline. If you don't want a special background, go to the next step.
    You tin can also use any other video prune or photo as the background.
  4. Click Titles, then double-click the championship in the browser that y'all want to utilize, or elevate the title to the timeline. If you used a background or other clip, the title is added every bit an attached clip above the other clip in the timeline. With an attached clip, when you movement a video prune or photo, the attached clip moves with it.

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

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