How to Use GreenScreen in iMovie

To use your green screen footage in abigger project, first edit it the followingway, export it, and then import the newfile. Not doing so will cause you to beunable to use cutaways, text, or transitionswith your green screen footage.

To use green screen in iMovie, first start with anempty project and select the background you

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would like to use.

Drag and drop the background video or imageinto the timeline.

Select the green screen footage you want to useand drag and drop it above the background.

To make the background longer or shorter tomatch your green screen footage, drag the edgeof the background.

Click to select the green screen footage in thetimeline, then click the drop down menu thatdefaults to Cutaway above the left corner of theviewer window and select Green/Blue Screen.

The green should now be removed to reveal thebackground behind it.

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