This will make the cool options like green screening, picture-in-picture, and cutaways available.

Before doing anything, go to iMovie -> Preferences, and place a check beside “ Show Advanced Tools“. When I first started using the green screen function in iMovie, I was super confused because as much as I looked, and as confident I was that I was doing everything right, I couldn’t find green screen in the menu! There’s a simple solution to this problem, and I’m going to save you a ton of time here by cluing you in. All new Mac’s come with this though, so if you aren’t sure, open your version of iMovie and go to iMovie -> About in the menu bar to see which version you’re using. If you don’t have the newest version of iLife, don’t bother trying. Keep in mind though, the green screening feature is only available in iMovie ’09. Secondly, iMovie is easy to use and is effective for producing top-notch videos. The main reason for using iMovie is because every new Mac has it, which makes it essentially free (save for a few cents for poster board, but we’ll get into that later) for all Mac users. In Apple’s iMovie, this feature is readily available for your usage. The easiest way to get rid of shadows is to move away from the background.Green screen (also known as Chroma key) is a commonly used technique for compositing two images or frames together in which a color (in this case, the green background) from one image is removed (or made transparent), revealing another image behind it. In this video I am too close to it, this is deliberate as I wanted to cast a shadow on the green screen as it is best not to have any shadows, however, iMovie handled it really well. It can look even to the eye until you look through the camera. Editing with green screen is easier if it is flat.

The pop up one also stretches the fabric leaving no creases. The background can be something like a green sheet or a pop up one like I use in the video, these are more expensive but if you need to be portable or want to quickly set it up or put it away then this might be more useful. What you need is a green background, you can use blue but green is more popular. If you want you can have a background about what is being talked about and just like weather forecasters refer to what you have in the background. This is great as you can have the background of your choosing which can look more professional and also can help with your presentation.

So you know that filming with a green screen background means you can superimpose your subject, which could be you, on to any background. It even allows you to do green screen which used to be notoriously fiddly, in fact it still can be. If you are a Mac user then iMovie is a great and free editing program.

Green screen on imovie mac