How to add effects, comic books and special sounds in movies with iMovie
iMovie is an application that allows you to edit, view, and organize videos of any format. Very simple to use as it comes with a library, where you can put videos in the same place by marking them as a favorite so as to have them always at hand.
With iMovie, you can improve the fight scenes or action in a manner similar to comics, with sounds, special effects and video, thanks to browser security’s iMovie.
Then we will learn how to freeze the action of a punch and add a caption also animated Batman style shooting. In this guide we will see how you can change the font of the caption to make it seem more ” cartoonish ” and also to emphasize the impact of every punch with one of the sound effects for iMovie.
1.) The first thing to do is to open iMovie and wait for loading the application. If you do not have the above application, we will bring us in the App. ITunes App Store, download and install it. Once you do this let us go in Archive and choose ” New Project ” from the dropdown menu. We create a project with a standard format (4: 3) and frame rate of 24 fps. At this point, we go to File, Import, Movies, and select a movie that shows any fight scene. Drag the movie in the Projects window and we click on the icon at the top right of the Projects window to view the movie as a single line. Now, in the View menu, choose Info playback point. We scroll forward 14 frames, and we do right-click; then Ungroup clips. We select the first section, then clips, Special Effect, Run flash and keep the last frame.
2.) We select the frame to latch and press ” L ” on the keyboard to open the Settings panel. In this panel, we will find the length of the clip at 1:00 sec and then select ” Yes ” apply them to all the still image. We click on ” Finish ” to complete the operation. Now select the icon browser Securities and Drag Sideways Drift on the still image. Make sure we have cut the length of the title at 1:00 sec and modify the text so that it is ” KA-POW! ” or an interaction of this kind, ideal for a fight scene. To look more like a comic book press button Show font and choose Impact. We click on the pan yellow to change the color of the writing. We set the size of 9 and select the icon Outline. Well, at this point we do click Finish.
3.) We can do is to add an audio file to our movie. Then click on the browser Music and sound effects, and we move to the folder Booms. Drag Slamming Metal Lid clip on ” KA-POW! ” and we will do the same with ” Sweep Motion” the frame ” SWOOSH! ” to add a sound interaction. We try to vary as much as possible the color and style of the caption, emulating the look of a comic sixties. Finally, we add a music that is fun and has a definite rhythm to merge action, sound effects and animated graphics.
