I'd like to have a lower thirds title with a slightly dark, say brown or gray, background behind it, since the still behind is busy and will interfere visually with the text. I only see black as the 'flag' background in iMovie 11. Is there a way to change this (I see I can change font colors easily).
Thanks, Mary
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Thanks...I do see those. I gather it's not possible to adjust the transparency of the background (i.e. to make a black more or less 'see through' or change from black or white to a different hue. I'll check out "soft bar." That might do it.
I'm posting a link to a video that has something I really like -- at 3:02 to 3:06 in this video by Bob Krist on Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/25645879. There's even a little flag blowing at the right. (I don't need that, however)
On a contrasty background -- where you don't want a big heavy black or white bar--this is cool. Maybe Final Cut has something for it?
Mary
If you scroll down further in the list of titles, there's a few other choices of backgrounds with a lower third style of titles:
1. Soft Bar
2. Gradient
3. Paper
4. Formal
5. Torn Edge
If you scrool down to the bottom of the available titles you'll see a number of lower thirds (Gradient - White, Soft Bar - Whie, Paper, Formal, Torn Edge - Tan etc.) that might work for you.
Matt
change background color of lower thirds
