Add text to your iMovie projection

Add text to video, photograph, or background clips, create a championship sequence, and add together end credits to your moving-picture show.

Add titles and text in iMovie on iPhone or iPad

Add text to any video prune, photo, or background in your project, then edit the text. You can also create a championship sequence or end credits for your movie.

Add text to a prune

You can add text to any video, photo, or background clip in the timeline. Simply tap the clip, tap the Titles push in the inspector at the bottom of the screen, then tap a title style.

Edit text

After y'all add text to a clip, you can edit the text, change where the title appears on-screen, and more. With your project open, tap the clip, and then tap the Titles button in the inspector at the lesser of the screen. Y'all can edit the text, reposition the text, and more:

Y'all change the title style at any time, while retaining any edits y'all've already fabricated:

  1. With your project open up, tap the clip in the timeline, then tap the Titles button.
  2. Tap a dissimilar title style to preview it in the viewer.

To remove text from a clip, tap the clip, tap the Titles button, then tap None in the title styles that appear.

Create a title sequence or finish credits

To create a title sequence or end credits for your movie, add a groundwork clip to the beginning or end of your movie, so add text to the background prune. iMovie includes a diversity of styles, including animated styles, that you lot can utilize in your movie.

  1. With your iMovie project open, ringlet the timeline until you get to the beginning or end of the movie.
  2. Tap the Add Media push button , tap Backgrounds.
  3. Tap a background, and then tap the Add to Project button .
  4. In the timeline, tap the background clip yous but added, and then the Titles button in the inspector at the lesser of the screen.iPad iMovie project with background and title inspector open
  5. Tap a title style. The text appears in the viewer above the timeline. To choose a unlike mode, just tap a dissimilar style in the inspector at the bottom of the screen.
  6. Trim the background prune to the desired length.

Yous tin can and so edit the text, change where the text appears on-screen, and more than.

Add titles and text in iMovie on Mac

Add text to whatsoever video clip, photo, or background in your project, then edit the text. Yous can also create a title sequence or end credits for your movie.

Add text to a clip

Here's how to add together text to a video, photo, or groundwork clip in the timeline.

  • Position the playhead where you want the text, click Titles above the browser, then double-click a style.
  • You lot can also elevate the style to the timeline, over the clip where you lot want it to announced.

The text is added every bit an fastened clip, in a higher place the other clip in the timeline.

Edit text

After you add together text to a clip, y'all can edit the text, change the font, change where the text appears on-screen, and more.

  • Double-click the clip with the text in the timeline, blazon the new the text in the viewer, then click the Apply push.
  • To change font type, size, and color, double-click the prune with the text in the timeline, suit the font controls at the top of the viewer, then click the Apply push button when you're finished.
  • To set how long the text appears in your movie, move your pointer to either border of the prune with the text in the timeline, then drag.
  • To change the style and placement of the text, double-click the title in the timeline, click Titles above the browser, then double-click the new way that you want to utilize. The new manner replaces the onetime i, retaining the duration y'all set and whatever adjustments you made to the text.

Create a championship sequence or stop credits

iMovie includes a variety of styles, including animated styles, that yous tin can use to create a title sequence or end credits. If you've set a theme for your movie, titles related to the theme appear at the summit of the browser. You can besides add a background if you desire your title sequence groundwork in a color other than blackness.

Mac iMovie project with titles inspector open

  1. With your iMovie project open, click the Media Library button  to evidence the browser if necessary.
  2. Position the playhead at the beginning or stop of the motion-picture show.
  3. If you desire a groundwork for the title sequence or cease credits other than black, click Backgrounds, then double-click the background that you want to use. Or drag the background to the outset or end of the timeline. If you don't want a special background, go to the next stride.
    You can besides use any other video clip or photo as the background.
  4. Click Titles, then double-click the championship in the browser that you lot want to use, or drag the championship to the timeline. If you used a groundwork or other clip, the championship is added as an attached clip above the other prune in the timeline. With an fastened clip, when yous move a video prune or photograph, the fastened clip moves with it.

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

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