The iMovie Titles Catalog
This discussion describes each of the title effects available in iMovie. Along the way, you’ll find out several useful pieces of information about each title:
How the Speed slider affects the effect.
Which directions you can make the text move, if any.
When you might find each effect useful.
3D Spin
Speed slider: Controls duration
Direction control: None
This twisty title effect, new in iMovie 4, sends your title text spinning crazily in all three dimensions, as though it were typeset on a piece of transparent confetti that’s tumbling down from the sky. It’s not especially easy to read, since for most of the time onscreen, you’re reading it in mirror-image, upside-down, or squished. (It never does come to a stop.) Its transparency also fluctuates, permitting more or less of the background video (or background black) to show through the letters.
Bounce Across
Speed slider: Controls flying-on speed
Direction control: Left, right
Don’t use this effect for anything serious or hard-hitting. It’s a light-hearted, almost comical animation in which your title and subtitle come rolling in on invisible roller-coaster tracks, bouncing up and down as they come to rest in the center of the screen. You get an additional control—a Wave slider that controls how high the bounces are, and therefore how dramatic the effect.
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