12. Titles

In Hollywood, movie titles aren’t mere words that flash up on the screen. Actors, agents, and studio executives negotiate for the length of time a person’s name appears, how large or small the typeface is, whether the name comes before or after the movie title, and all sorts of other conditions that inflame my natural aversion to fine print. Hopefully, you won’t deal with any of that, because the other aspects of movie titles—i.e., actually creating them—are made extraordinarily easy in iMovie.

As with a lot of iMovie capabilities, you’re creating elements quickly and cheaply that used to cost a fortune for studios and filmmakers.

Editing the Text

iMovie offers three types of text fields, depending on the type of title used. To begin ...

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