I'm going to add a key frame right here as well. So at the beginning I'm going to move the playhead over a little bit until the skier kind of follows a line there and then starts to turn. I can set a key frame right here by clicking this key frame add button right here. I can stretch it to make it a little bit bigger. Go back to the beginning here and I can move this around. I also want to change Dissolve to zero so it doesn't get transparent towards the beginning and end. So now I've got it over here as Picture-In-Picture. Instead of cutaway, which will fill the entire screen, to do it as Picture-In-Picture. I want to change the cropping to Crop to Fill, not Ken Burns, and I'm going to change the overlay setting. Now you can see it is transparent and it fills the entire thing. I'm going to stretch it so it fills the entire space. I'm going to put it above the video, right here. Now I'm going to drag that circle graphic in. So now I have, over here, I can see this video of some skiers.
I'm going to create a new project, a new movie project. I'm going to drag and drop in, instead of just using the import function, a video here into the import media section.
I'm going to export it as a PNG with the alpha channel and save that to my desktop as circle. Now we only have a transparent background with this red circle in it. I'm going to do Command A to select all and delete everything in the background which is that white that we copied from the screen. So I'm going to select the selection tool here. So now I have a red circle on a white background. I'm going to create it pretty big and then kind of put it in the center. I don't want it to be filled with anything. So I'm going to create a circle graphic there. Now I want to create a circle right in the middle. You can see that I've got a graphic now that is the size of the video.
So I'm going to change it so it is equivalent to 720p and I'll shrink that down. Now iMovie demands that graphics brought in are the same ratio as the video itself so I'm going to have to adjust the size here and make it a 16 by 9 video. Now in Preview I can create New from Clipboard and I get this white space here, Preview. I'm going to do Command Control Shift and 4 screen capture just a little bit of white space there. I can't create something new in Preview unless I have something in the Clipboard first. I'm going to go to Preview here and create something new.
To do that first I need to have a graphic that I can use for that animation. I'm just going to have a circle that follows a person in the video. I'm going to use a variety of techniques to create a video that has a moving graphical element in it. Let me point out that I'm using iMovie 10.0.7 and we're going to create something where you can have a moving item, like that circle there you see in the video, follow something going on in the video.
On today's episode I'm going to show you how to put a moving graphic that follows something around in a video you make in iMovie. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Moving Graphic Pointers In iMovie at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.