thank you man, finally an excellent Imovie motion tracking video tutorial made by an adult who speaks clearly. I was nearly giving up my search as the only things coming up on google were total garbage. Thank you again!
Phenomenal. Your timing is perfect. This is precisely what I need for a video I’m working on. You are an absolute gem of a resource. Thank you so much.
I wanted to thank you for your tutorial. My daughter is on a soccer team, and I wanted to send a video to recruiters. This was the perfect thing for the video.
Thank you, was editing a video in iMovie and as well all know iMovie is kinda great but is missing some key onscreen features, this was a perfect guide to help me get an arrow onto my 'movie'.
I had to comment again. I was just thinking how you just changed the game for me and what’s capable with iMovie. I’ve had premier pro however I’m able to produce quality videos simply with iMovie now I can take that even further. Thanks again for the keynote tips/ no fill etc. great stuff thanks for taking the time and uploading really appreciate this !
This is really useful. How to Add the arrow on the video in different locations vertically? Like how to point to buttons and objects in a iPhone screen recording?
Thanks, great video that was very helpful for me. I had some issues understanding how to get the keyframe window to appear. You have to click on the image you are overlaying, then on the video overlay settings (after you've changed to picture in picture) however, on my macbook pro, the control appears inside the actual video preview window in the top left corner. I think this is because i had a 4k widescreen video and your sample video wasn't widescreen, which gave the impression that the controls would be separate.
Gary great job with this tutorial. I’m an occasional iMovie user but was never aware of ‘key frames’. Do you have another tutorial which explains this in depth with more examples when to use? Thx and keep up the excellent work!!
This tutorial helped so much, thank you! However, I’m having 1 issue. After I put my arrow in, the arrow is slowly sliding up and down on the screen instead of staying in one place. The shape is slowly moving instead of staying still. Can you help with that?
Thanks for the great video, but I kept having a problem with the Keynote arrow & the key frame. As I got further and further along in the video (I'd use the right arrow and go ahead 7 frames...5 was just taking forever), the arrow that I made in Keynote kept getting smaller and smaller. This went on until all I had left was the arrow head and no line at all behind it. Do you know why it did this and how I can fix it? Thanks for posting this; I plan to look at more of your really informative videos.
I followed this and it was a huge help, but I'm having problems with the arrow eventually disappearing. I noticed that when I use the arrows to tab forward five frames I start to loose it. How can I stop this forming happening? I go from a full size arrow at the beginning of the clip to at the end of a video clip just the tip of the arrow.
This is such a great video, thanks. I created my arrow in Keynote and brought it into iMovie and placed it over my daughter's head, but when the video plays, the arrow moves up the screen on its own. How do I make it stop doing that? Thanks!
Well explained! One question. How do I hide the arrow for two seconds of the screen and then have it reappear again later ? I can’t seem to be be able to split the arrow bar 😅
Hi! thanks for your video! Is there any way to use different transition animations between one keyframe and the other? for instance if the transition between one keyframe and the other is very abrupt, one would like to have a very short fading between the previous position of the image
Thanks for your answer :) I think all I needed is to set keyframes right before and after each of my target's moves to avoid any smooth animation. I was working on a gif with a low FPS and the movement of the following item looked like "dancing" around my target rather than following it
Awesome video. But for some reason I am unable to clear the background colour. The option to export image without background doesn’t show up. Any idea why?
Can I do this using a slightly animated spotlight beam gif (to make bottom circle cycle a bit) with circle at bottom/player (like a spotlight from above that follows the player in a hockey video game)?
Quick question: I followed the tutorial and the image I'm using as the Picture-In-Picture marker (arrow, same as the example) is moving or zooming in its PIP box as I scrub thru the video. Not sure what setting I need to change because the media itself is a just a static PNG with a transparent background that I dragged out the length of the main clip. This is iMove 10.3.5 running in Big Sur
@@macmost I'm not explaining it clearly. The first arrow I tried was a transparent background PNG I downloaded. It moved from the top of the PIP box to the bottom. The next one I made myself, it was larger than the PIP box when I added it to iMovie, and it got smaller over the length of the video clip. I hadn't resized the PIP box in either case. I'd probably have to record my screen to show this. Maybe there's just some weird glitch with iMovie or my Mac.
Hi Gary, great video, and wonderful timing to find this since I was looking to do this for football highlight videos.. One more advanced question.. rather than an arrow to highlight a player, how could I add a .GIF of something like a flaming circle? The idea being "that player is heating up" or "all eyes on this guys" while players are at line of scrimmage..
Another great video to be saved. Gary, is this the method used when, say in a News show clip, they'll have a circle around a person of interest while the rest of the scene is darkened?
Somebody may have mentioned this error in this otherwise great tutorial... in Keynote you don't want to make the image square, you want it to be the same aspect ratio as iMovie 16:9. The reason is because otherwise it will automatically chop off your image to fit into that aspect ratio, sometimes resulting in a chopped image (like a circle has been chopped top and bottom so the image now looks like a pair of parentheses). Otherwise this tutorial helped me quite a bit. Thanks!
Thank you for this video. I have been trying to figure out how to do this for a year for my daughter's basketball clips. Very well explained.
thank you man, finally an excellent Imovie motion tracking video tutorial made by an adult who speaks clearly. I was nearly giving up my search as the only things coming up on google were total garbage. Thank you again!
hahahaha , oh wow
Gary, you are the absolute best! Not only the technical know how, but more importantly, you KNOW HOW TO TEACH IT!! Thank you.
Phenomenal. Your timing is perfect. This is precisely what I need for a video I’m working on. You are an absolute gem of a resource. Thank you so much.
Thank you Gary, your videos are awesome!
Thank you, these videos are so well done. Everything is explained clearly and at just the right pace. Your work is appreciated!!
I wanted to thank you for your tutorial. My daughter is on a soccer team, and I wanted to send a video to recruiters. This was the perfect thing for the video.
Been there. In fact I used this technique for the same purpose (well, Field Hockey).
This is what I have been looking for. Thank you gary the great job
I am a very small and new youtuber so this is very educational and great for me.Thank you so much
This is exactly what I was looking to do for my son's hockey videos. Great, simply explanation. Thank you.
Thank you, was editing a video in iMovie and as well all know iMovie is kinda great but is missing some key onscreen features, this was a perfect guide to help me get an arrow onto my 'movie'.
AMAZING Gary!! Keep up the good work
Thank you for this. You're a great teacher.
This is amazing. I can't believe that these tools come built in with an Apple computer. It just takes someone like you to dig them out!
Gary, you are my favorite teacher! Thank you for your patient presentations, there is just so much to learn!
AWESOME video. Step by step process and I was able to emulate. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
The only helpful video on this topic I have watched, thanks man
Thank you so much for this walkthrough! Helped me tremendously!
Thank you so much for your great tutorial. I learned a lot, and I could teach my son how to do it very efficiently.
Excellent step by step to create transparent shapes. Thank you!
Great tutorial. Thank you!
This worked perfectly thank you so much!!
You can use a semi transparent texture with this to make a spot shadow! Helped a ton.
Great video. Very clear explanation. Thank you very much.
Omg tysm!! I'm new to ur channel but this thing has totally helped me! Tysmm!!!
Thank you! This was just what I needed. Phew!
Champion video! Thank you!
This is fabulous! Thank you!
really useful. Thank you!
Wow, a TH-cam video that’s not only accurate and complete but I actually learned something! Thanks for your generosity in sharing…
Perfect video on the topic! Thank you. 🙏
This video is awesome! Thank you for sharing, it has helped me out a lot.
Thanks for this video! Great explanations.
Great tutorial video!
this is amazing thank you so much. I was wondering if you had a video on how to do this on an iphone using iMovie
You need to use iMovie for Mac to do this.
I had to comment again. I was just thinking how you just changed the game for me and what’s capable with iMovie. I’ve had premier pro however I’m able to produce quality videos simply with iMovie now I can take that even further. Thanks again for the keynote tips/ no fill etc. great stuff thanks for taking the time and uploading really appreciate this !
This is really useful.
How to Add the arrow on the video in different locations vertically? Like how to point to buttons and objects in a iPhone screen recording?
Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed! So easy to follow
Thanks, great video that was very helpful for me. I had some issues understanding how to get the keyframe window to appear. You have to click on the image you are overlaying, then on the video overlay settings (after you've changed to picture in picture) however, on my macbook pro, the control appears inside the actual video preview window in the top left corner. I think this is because i had a 4k widescreen video and your sample video wasn't widescreen, which gave the impression that the controls would be separate.
You sir; just gained a sub! Much appreciated
Awesome, thank you for this great tutorial!
Much value here my friend. Thank you
Amazing man! Posting a video today using this tutorial :)
Thank you so much for the help, Sir.
You are the master! Thank you!
Very informative! Quick question is there any way to disable the yellow line that tries to orient the arrow when I'm near the middle between keyframes
Thank You so much for this!
thanks for letting us know about that Gary
Wow, pretty slick!
excellent video , what I wanted . thanks a lot
Great tutorial! I would've never thought to use keynote to make the symbol! Thank you!
Awesome video sir!!!
Mate, you are the best! Thank you 🇬🇧🏆🇺🇲
OH wonderful. This is so cool. Just what I need. Thanks
It works! Wow! except my circle got cut in half somehow. I'm working on it.
You rule ! You should be called upon to make all tutorial videos ever made from here on out for any subject
Thanks for sharing it.
Gary great job with this tutorial. I’m an occasional iMovie user but was never aware of ‘key frames’. Do you have another tutorial which explains this in depth with more examples when to use? Thx and keep up the excellent work!!
See th-cam.com/video/cSviJFKRpb0/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! Really helped me out !!
Wow! Thank you!
Wonderful. Thank you!
Amazing info. I need to make a 6 min soccer video for college
Great job
Thanks for valuable information👌
thank you so much this video is perfect
great thanks for this tutorial
Thank you Gary!
Do you have a tutorial for the same but using keynote on iPhone and iMovie also
This is awesome
This tutorial helped so much, thank you! However, I’m having 1 issue. After I put my arrow in, the arrow is slowly sliding up and down on the screen instead of staying in one place. The shape is slowly moving instead of staying still. Can you help with that?
Looks like you simply have a keyframe there. Look for that extra keyframe and remove it, or start again.
VERY helpful, but I have one question... How do I put more than one arrow on the screen at once?
thank you!!
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks for the great video, but I kept having a problem with the Keynote arrow & the key frame. As I got further and further along in the video (I'd use the right arrow and go ahead 7 frames...5 was just taking forever), the arrow that I made in Keynote kept getting smaller and smaller. This went on until all I had left was the arrow head and no line at all behind it. Do you know why it did this and how I can fix it? Thanks for posting this; I plan to look at more of your really informative videos.
Maybe you were grabbing it in such a way that you were scaling it too?
Haha... 5 months late but I think you have it set to "Ken Burns" (which is default) change it in the crop icon (set to fill)
Thank you Gary. Question. Can you add another arrow or can you only have the single one?
In iMovie you can really only do one at a time.
Thank you
Thank you.
I followed this and it was a huge help, but I'm having problems with the arrow eventually disappearing. I noticed that when I use the arrows to tab forward five frames I start to loose it. How can I stop this forming happening? I go from a full size arrow at the beginning of the clip to at the end of a video clip just the tip of the arrow.
You just have to be careful when you set the keyframes. Sounds like you have one past that point that is not where you want it.
Thanks a lot .
This is such a great video, thanks. I created my arrow in Keynote and brought it into iMovie and placed it over my daughter's head, but when the video plays, the arrow moves up the screen on its own. How do I make it stop doing that? Thanks!
Just review what you are doing, frame by frame. Watch the video again as I explain each step to make this work.
a-freaking-mazing! thank you!
Well explained! One question. How do I hide the arrow for two seconds of the screen and then have it reappear again later ? I can’t seem to be be able to split the arrow bar 😅
You'll need two separate picture-in-pictures, with a gap in-between.
Thanks a lot dude 👍🏾 👌🏾 ✅
great video
Hi! thanks for your video!
Is there any way to use different transition animations between one keyframe and the other? for instance if the transition between one keyframe and the other is very abrupt, one would like to have a very short fading between the previous position of the image
Not quite sure what you are after here from that description, but play around with the transitions in iMovie to see what they each do.
Thanks for your answer :) I think all I needed is to set keyframes right before and after each of my target's moves to avoid any smooth animation. I was working on a gif with a low FPS and the movement of the following item looked like "dancing" around my target rather than following it
Legend thanks !!!
Hi there. I can't seem to get the PNG image to drag to imovie. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!
Where are you dragging it to inside iMovie? Try dragging to the timeline at the bottom.
Awesome video. But for some reason I am unable to clear the background colour. The option to export image without background doesn’t show up. Any idea why?
Make sure you have set the background of every slide to none.
Can I do this using a slightly animated spotlight beam gif (to make bottom circle cycle a bit) with circle at bottom/player (like a spotlight from above that follows the player in a hockey video game)?
You can't use an Animated GIF.
Quick question: I followed the tutorial and the image I'm using as the Picture-In-Picture marker (arrow, same as the example) is moving or zooming in its PIP box as I scrub thru the video. Not sure what setting I need to change because the media itself is a just a static PNG with a transparent background that I dragged out the length of the main clip. This is iMove 10.3.5 running in Big Sur
So the arrow changes size? Sounds like when you moved it at some point you also resized it maybe.
@@macmost I'm not explaining it clearly. The first arrow I tried was a transparent background PNG I downloaded. It moved from the top of the PIP box to the bottom. The next one I made myself, it was larger than the PIP box when I added it to iMovie, and it got smaller over the length of the video clip. I hadn't resized the PIP box in either case. I'd probably have to record my screen to show this. Maybe there's just some weird glitch with iMovie or my Mac.
Not able to bring the arrow to the movie timeline. Any tips?
I figured it out- Thank you sincerely- very smooth!
Hi Gary, great video, and wonderful timing to find this since I was looking to do this for football highlight videos.. One more advanced question.. rather than an arrow to highlight a player, how could I add a .GIF of something like a flaming circle? The idea being "that player is heating up" or "all eyes on this guys" while players are at line of scrimmage..
Just drag a GIF file into Keynote and it should work. Then use it instead of the shape.
Awesome, does this work the same for iOS version as well?
No, I don't think you can do this in iMovie for iOS.
thx so much
Another great video to be saved.
Gary, is this the method used when, say in a News show clip, they'll have a circle around a person of interest while the rest of the scene is darkened?
I doubt any news station is using iMovie. They are probably using Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier, or some other pro-level software.
Somebody may have mentioned this error in this otherwise great tutorial... in Keynote you don't want to make the image square, you want it to be the same aspect ratio as iMovie 16:9. The reason is because otherwise it will automatically chop off your image to fit into that aspect ratio, sometimes resulting in a chopped image (like a circle has been chopped top and bottom so the image now looks like a pair of parentheses). Otherwise this tutorial helped me quite a bit. Thanks!
Shouldn't make any difference as long as you have the arrow set to crop to Fit, not crop to Fill.
@@macmost hmmmm ok thank you, where would I find that setting?
@@freshstartdetail8680 Select the overlay, then click the cropping settings at the top.
had an issue adding multiple without erasing orignal
Top shelf work👍👌
Very informative content my friend
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How would I draw the objects path? I would like a line that traces motion.
You can't in iMovie. Depending on your needs you may be able to use Keynote. th-cam.com/video/QdPb6PB4GBs/w-d-xo.html
No matter how small I make my arrow before adding it to imove, it's too big!? What size should the arrow be? Many thanks.
Make sure you follow along closely as I show you how to size it once you bring it into iMovie.
How do you get the folder
My arrow keeps moving up and down within it's invisible box.