How to add multiple pictures to one frame in iMovie

A simple method which may get you 99% of what you want is to do a Slideshow from iPhoto.

Select all the pictures, or create an Albumn, or Smart Albumn, and then hit Slideshow.

When the Slideshow starts, you can click on the screen to bring up a settings bar.

You can click on the gear (options), and then go to the Themes tab, and select Snapshots.

This has the effect you described I think.

You can adjust the number of seconds each picture is displayed, or have iPhoto automatically adjust the speed to match the length of the music.

You can click on the music note and add music.

You might want to chekc out Photo to Movie.

http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php

It has some effects that might interest you.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3844410?start=0&tstart=0

I've used Photo to Movie for years in conjuction with iMovie.

Matt

I don't know a way to do this in iMovie.

As a possible solution, there is an app in the Mac App Store called MovingPhotos3D (There is also a free version).

It makes very nice effects with your photos, but it does not allow you to export the animation as a movie. You might try using QuickTime Player to do a video screen capture and using this to start your movie.

Hi

The way to do this with iMovie - is not as easy as one would like it to be but this is the way to do it.

• Put the first sequens into a New Project

• Add the first picture

• Export this as a full Quality QuickTime .mov movie

• Import movie this to Event's

• Now use this new Event into a New Project

• add the photo 2

repeate it till done

A tedious way to do it - iMovie'08 to 11 was meant to be easy - but it's only plain and has lost lot's of vital functions. In FinalCut Express and Pro this is much more straight on by adding each photo to a new video track ontop of the other and re-sizing and moving it around at ones liking . Still FinalCut Pro-X seems to go the same way as iMovie and losing vital functions (as play/record back to Camera, Live out via FireWire etc.)

Described method above is the same as is used when in need of complex text scenes.

Yours Bengt W

CMBeamer wrote:

… I would like to take all of my brother's school pics … and show them one at a time but have the pictures like stack on top of each other.… When that is done then it will move on to the one picture at a time thing. Is this possible …

not a 100%, but sort-of:

• create your stills from the videos first

• create in any pic-processor (I like Pixelmator, 24€, AppStore) your pile of pics.

• import to iM, and zoom-in to specific picture

• cut to moving image from clip

you can NOT zoom to full-frame, that is beyond the built-in Ken Burns effect in iM, which allows only a zoom of about x5.

I did that 6 years ago with iMvers6 and QuicktimePro - and a single picture:

https://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/piccomesalive

(demo on bottom of site)

for a pile of pictures, that method would be too ... pain-staking 😉

consider purchase of Motion5 as effects-machine - this would allow, all pictures movin', zoom and rotate, perspective shift, 'glossy' light etc etc - but no beginner's task.