Special Edition Using® Mac® OS X v10.2

Titling Your Movie

When it comes to titles, credits, and other text, your iMovie movies can certainly hold their own. There are many title effects you can add to your movies in almost limitless ways. You will be amazed at how much improvement you can make to your movies with the right title effects.

Although adding onscreen text is called titling, this term refers to much more than just the movie's name. Basically, titling is iMovie's term for overlaying all sorts of text on the screen. The titles you might want to use in your movies include the following:

• Captions As with figure captions, you can use “clip captions” to add information to the image onscreen. You might want to add some explanation of what is happening on the screen, the date on ...