The easy options allow you to change the positions of the content, left/right and top/bottom. The Split Screen overlay allows you to display two videos/images side by side. Endless fun! I made a Harry Potter invisibility cloak just by wrapping myself in a green cloth! You can play around with props, shirts, etc. Remember, a green/blue screen doesn’t always need to be a background. The green screen footage can also be cropped to show only the section that you need. iMovie offers easy tools for this, including the clean-up tool and softness slider. Depending on lighting, shadows and crinkles, you might need to polish the look. Selecting Green/Blue Screen will remove the green/blue background of the top video, revealing the footage from the first layer. Simply add the green screen footage above the background video/image track. I noticed a green washing machine cover for sale nearby, ripped it up and hung it up. I had no idea that it was so easy! I first started to play around with our green screen at school but I also wanted the option to create green screen content at home. The option to create with a green screen is the main reason why I started exploring these overlay features (blue screens also work).

The shade and opacity of the above footage can be adjusted using the sliders. This is an easy way to cut back and forth between different clips. Your project will revert back to the original footage when the above track ends. At points in the timeline when a second video/image is added above the original track, the project will cut to that above footage. Below, I have briefly described each of the four overlay options:Ĭutaway is the default overlay option. Selecting the top video layer will show the video overlay icon. It really is as simple as adding a second clip! And that’s why all of the screenshots below show two video layers. By adding a second clip above your original track, you can explore the overlay options: Cutaway, Green/Blue Screen, Split Screen and Picture in Picture. In the Mac version, the timeline allows for two video/image tracks. Click here to see the video overlay options on iPad and iPhone By clicking the three dots, you will see the four video overlay options, as well as the option to insert the audio only. In these versions, adding a new video will display the insert and preview options as shown in the screenshot below. The remainder of this blog post outlines how these overlay options work in the more advanced Mac version of iMovie, but they are also available on iPad and iPhone. Below are some fantastic video overlay opportunities that I didn’t know about previously. Furthermore, my classroom will be 1:1 iPads next year and so I want to be really familiar with these great Apple products. But during the period of remote learning, I was keen to upskill in this area so that I could make more engaging video content for my students. I’ve used iMovie a lot over the years but only using the standard, most basic video editing options.

Imovie split video into multiple clips