Green Screen with iMovie iOS18.1

Hey, guys, Mr. Bowtie here.

Today, we're talking about creating

a green screen video using iMovie.

And I'm using iOS 18.1, but this

does work with some older versions.

All right, so first off, I'm in iMovie.

I'm going to click at the bottom,

Start New Project.

I'm going to select the Movie,

and then I'm going to come over to Photos.

I'm going to select my background first,

and you can see my kids have been using

this, but there is a Halloween

one 'cause it's Halloween.

And then at the bottom,

I'm going to click the Create,

Create Movie button at the bottom.

There it is.

My little play, that line going,

that white line's called the play head.

I'm going to move it back

to the zero position.

There's my background,

but now I'm going to add in my video.

So I'm going to come up to the plus

button at the top right-hand corner.

And I'm now going to select my video,

and if I just go to all my videos,

you'll see I have some green screen.

All right, I'm going to click on that top,

video, and you'll notice that there

are three little dots there on the right.

If I click the three little dots,

click on Green/Blue Screen,

it will automatically add in my video.

It just happens to be the same

length, which is great.

You can adjust the timing of it.

But don't touch the video.

You see this kind of just swirling,

and boom, it now, cuts out that video.

And I can kind of come back and kind of see

how it looks, and it

looks really, really good.

There you go.

All right?

But let's say...

I'm going to delete that one

out for a second.

And let's say I add in a video.

'Cause that was with an actual green

screen, but I've even done this with,

green butcher paper.

So this is, green butcher

paper I'm standing in front of.

Again, click on the video,

three dots, Green/Blue Screen.

It's going to add it in.

This is a shorter video.

And you'll notice that not

everything, was...

That green background

wasn't all the way there.

So watch this.

I can click on the video, highlight it,

then you're going to come up and the little

crop feature, that little square,

I'm going to click on that.

And now I can drag the corners,

of my video clip, if I can grab those,

there we go, and kind of bring those in.

Perfect, right?

That might be just a little bit better.

And of course, I'm going to kind of

play it through, walk it through.

There's still a little bit

on that right-hand side, yep.

So I can kind of click on it again, crop it,

and just bring in just a touch more.

So as I'm kind of going back and forth,

there we go.

We don't see that effect.

Perfect.

When I'm done, in the top left-hand

corner, you'll see the Done button.

Click it.

From here, where it says My Movie, I can

just, press and hold or hit Edit.

Press and hold,

the My Movie or click on it.

There we go.

And now I can change the name

of that project, hit Done, and then

at the bottom is our little Share button.

Or I can play it,

but there's my Share button.

And then I can save and export as a video.

And when you're done, you're done.