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Get rid of drop shadow under title text?

Basic question, just need a basic answer. Making some music videos with text that runs in front of the clips; the drop shadow makes it look rather... Cheesy. I don't know. Something like that, you figure out the word.

Any way to get rid of this effect? I tried looking at the "show fonts" panel but didn't find anything.

Macbook Pro 15" 2011, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Apr 8, 2011 8:14 AM

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Posted on Jan 24, 2017 1:03 PM

I couldn't find a way to do it directly in iMovie (10.1.4). But if you style your text in TextEdit and copy and paste that text into iMovie it will keep the formatting. So open up TextEdit, write your title, highlight it, select "Show Fonts" in the Format > Font menu, adjust the typeface, color, size, alignment, shadow style (or turn off the shadow), then copy and paste that text into iMovie.

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wreks
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Jan 24, 2017 1:03 PM in response to Demara

I couldn't find a way to do it directly in iMovie (10.1.4). But if you style your text in TextEdit and copy and paste that text into iMovie it will keep the formatting. So open up TextEdit, write your title, highlight it, select "Show Fonts" in the Format > Font menu, adjust the typeface, color, size, alignment, shadow style (or turn off the shadow), then copy and paste that text into iMovie.

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John Cogdell
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Apr 8, 2011 8:21 PM in response to Demara

In the Titles that allow you to change fonts, when you click on Fonts you normally see the default iMovie fonts panel (including sizes and colours). At the bottom of the panel you can also access System Fonts. Click on this and you will be able to see all your fonts in a new panel that opens. Select an appropriate font in regular format, ensuring that drop shadow is not selected.

I don't have iMovie running at the moment, so I'm working from memory, but it should work as I've described.

John
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John Cogdell
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Apr 9, 2011 7:26 PM in response to Demara

iMovie always opens up to the systems font panel for me. There's no visible option that suggests a drop shadow, though.

In the System Font panel you will see a bar of icons for Style selections - Bold, Italic, Underline and lastly, Outline (small O shape). If you click on the Outline icon it activates an Outline slider at the lower right of the panel. The Outline slider enable you to set the thickness of the outline.

I can't see a drop shadow icon either, but am assuming you are actually referring to the Outline function, as I've just described. Sorry about referring to this as "drop shadow" in my earlier post (I was picking that up from your original post).

As AppleMan has already asked, which Title are you using? I don't recall seeing any titles with drop shadow in iMovie '11 (but could be mistaken).

Regarding the default panel, if the System Font panel opens, simply click on the iMovie Font Panel bar at the lower left of the System Font panel.

John

Message was edited by: John Cogdell - added last paragraph
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