How To Add Green Screen In Imovie

Create a greenish-screen effect in iMovie on Mac

You tin can tape video in front of a green or blue backdrop, and and so "cutting out" the subject and superimpose it over another video clip. This is chosen a green-screen or blue-screen result. For example, you could record a friend dancing in front of a dark-green or blueish properties, and and so place that video over a clip showing a starry sky, so that your friend appears to be dancing in the sky.

You can also elevate the green-screen or blueish-screen clip over a solid-color or animated background prune.

If the bailiwick of your video is green or is wearing green, you should tape in front end of a blueish groundwork. Likewise, if the subject of your video contains bluish or is wearing blue, y'all should tape in front of a green background.

The audio from the original clip and the audio from the greenish-screen or bluish-screen prune play simultaneously. You tin can reduce the volume of either clip so that sound from the other clip stands out. For more than data, see Add audio effects in iMovie on Mac.

Use a green-screen or blue-screen effect

In the iMovie app on your Mac, select a clip or range in the timeline that you shot confronting a greenish or blue backdrop, and elevate it higher up a clip in your projection.

When you meet the green Add icon (+), release the mouse button.
If the video overlay controls aren't shown, click the Video Overlay Settings push.
Click the pop-up card on the left and choose Green/Blue Screen.

In the viewer, the clip shot against the dark-green or blue backdrop has the green or blue removed, and the clip below shows through the areas that were greenish or blueish, creating a blended epitome.

The color that iMovie removes is based on the dominant color in the frame at the position of the playhead when you lot choose Green/Blue Screen from the pop-upwards menu. If the frame below the playhead isn't representative of the rest of the prune, you lot may need to reposition the playhead and reapply the outcome.

To reposition the green-screen or blue-screen prune, drag it to a different spot within the prune, or to a different prune. You can also drag the ends to lengthen or shorten it.
To apply the changes, click the Apply push in the Green/Blue Screen controls.

Adjust a dark-green-screen or blue-screen consequence

In the iMovie app on your Mac, select a greenish-screen or blue-screen clip in the timeline.
If the Green/Blue Screen controls aren't shown, click the Video Overlay Settings button.
Do any of the post-obit:
- Adjust the softness of the edges of the superimposed prune: Elevate the Softness slider.
- Isolate areas of the green-screen or blue-screen clip: Click the Crop button, and and so drag the corners of the frame to isolate the subject area in the foreground clip.
- Make clean up areas of the green-screen or blueish-screen clip: Click the Clean-up button, and and then drag across stray parts of the light-green-screen or blue-screen clip that should not exist showing.
  
  Each time yous elevate, iMovie uses the new selection to determine what should exist cleaned up.
  
  Tip: Y'all should set Softness before clicking the Clean-up button. If yous accommodate Softness after you use the Make clean-upwards push button, the groundwork clean-upwards selection is reset and must be reselected.
To apply the change, click the Employ button in the Light-green/Blue Screen controls.