Change the await of your iMovie project

Change the fashion your film looks with effects like video filters, color adjustment tools, and the Ken Burns outcome.

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    iPhone, iPad, or iPod Impact

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    Mac

Change the look of your iMovie project on iPhone or iPad

iMovie includes effects that tin can modify the style your clips wait. If yous want a detail look, use a preset filter like B&Westward (blackness and white) or Sepia. And for whatsoever photos in your iMovie project, you tin adapt the Ken Burns effect that sweeps beyond and zooms in and out on the prototype.

You tin use the light-green screen effect in iMovie to add green-screen content equally an overlay.

Use filters in iMovie on iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact

Add a filter to a unmarried video clip in a project:

  1. Tap a video clip in the timeline to select it.
  2. Tap the Filters button, so tap a filter to preview it in the viewer.
    iMovie on iPad project with Filters gallery open
  3. Tap exterior the filter to apply the filter, or tap None if you don't want to use a filter.

Y'all can also add together a filter to an entire project:

  1. Open a project.
  2. Tap the Projection Settings push button , tap a filter, then tap Done. Filters are applied to all the video clips in the project, but not to photos or other notwithstanding images.

If you desire to add a filter to a photo, utilize the Photos app to utilize a filter, then add the photo back into the timeline of your project. The Photos app includes many of the same filters equally iMovie.

Accommodate the Ken Burns effect

Change the wait of your iMovie project on Mac

iMovie includes effects that can change the fashion your clips look. You can rapidly ameliorate the style a clip looks and sounds. If y'all want a detail look, apply a preset filter like Black and White or Sepia. Adjust colors, match colors between clips, fix whites or grays, and more than with the built-in automatic color adjustment tools. Or make manual color adjustments.

Y'all tin can use the light-green screen upshot in iMovie to add greenish-screen content as an overlay.

Quickly improve the way a clip looks and sounds in iMovie on Mac

To quickly ameliorate the way a clip looks and sounds, select the clip in the browser or timeline, then click the Enhance button higher up the viewer.

Employ a preset filter in iMovie on Mac

Automatically change video colors in iMovie on Mac

  1. Select ane or more video clips in the browser or timeline.
  2. Click the Color Balance push button above the viewer, then choose an choice:
    • To make automatic color adjustments, click Auto.
    • To match colors between clips, click Match Color, drag your arrow (which is now an eyedropper) over another clip that yous want match with the selected clip, so click when y'all've found a frame you want to use as the source for the color match.
    • To fix the whites or grays in a prune, click the White Balance push, and then click the part of the clip that should be white or gray in the viewer.
    • To utilise skin tone to change the colour of a clip, click the Skin Tone Balance button, then click an exposed part of someone'due south peel in the clip in the viewer.
  3. When done, click the Apply switch . To plow the effect on or off, elevate the switch. Or click the Abolish button  to remove the alter.

Manually change video colors in iMovie on Mac

With the built-in color correction tools in iMovie, y'all make clips look every bit natural every bit possible, or you tin can completely alter the colors of clips. Select one or more clips in the browser or timeline, then click the Colour Correction button to a higher place the viewer to prove the colour correction controls:

iMovie for Mac project window with Color Correction controls visible

  • To adjust shadows, effulgence, contrast, or highlights, elevate the sliders in the multislider control on the left.
  • To suit saturation (the intensity of the color), drag the Saturation control in the middle.
  • To adjust colour temperature, drag the Color Temperature control on the right.

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