![]() Similar to the background shot, you’ll find your clip and select it, but don’t start mashing that + button–that’s just going to drop the clip into the timeline and that’s not what you want to do. If you’re familiar with iMovie, this isn’t rocket science–find your clip/photo, select it, and hit + to add it to the timeline. With your video project open, you’ll add the background shot to the timeline first. How to do it Step one – add the background shot Good lighting (I cannot stress this enough–I tried with mediocre lighting and it wasn’t pretty).An iPhone with iMovie installed, as well as the 2.2.7 update release from June 2019 and basic working knowledge of iMovie (how to add/edit clips, etc). ![]() Learn more about how we utilize affiliate links to keep our content free on our Disclosures page under “Affiliate Links”. What you’ll needĭisclosure: Material and tools links listed below are affiliate links. It’s really not as hard as you might expect. If you want to know how you can do it, I put together a quick walk-through of it. I don’t think I’d even upgraded to an iPhone at that time, so such capabilities would have seemed foreign. If you’d told me ten years ago I’d be able to stitch together green screen shots on my phone, I probably would’ve thought you were crazy. It’s crazy to think about how much you’re able to do with your phone nowadays–my iPhone 7 plus has more power to it than the first PC I ever built, and does way more than the Windows Movie Maker I cut my teeth in editing videos with. The power of visual effects in the palm of your hand… It turns out, I stumbled across the feature in iMovie completely on accident–apparently it was something that Apple had added earlier this year in an update, but when I ran some polls as to whether or not people knew it was an option, 100% of my iPhone using audience who were familiar with the iOS version of iMovie was unaware of the feature, which most people associate with higher end desktop applications like Adobe Premiere. In fact I had done the whole thing using iMovie on my iPhone. But it resulted in a bunch of people asking me “how the heck did you do that?” It was a silly screen test, more a proof of concept to show that I could do it and not anything of substance. A couple of weeks back I posted a test video of me with… Well… Me, a trick I accomplished using a green screen. ![]() This post is going to be a little outside my normal wheelhouse, but with good reason. And now for something completely different… ![]()
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