Does anyone know how to create more advanced text effects that could be used in video?
For example, a list that pops up on the screen, but not all at once. Rather the list items would appear sequentially as the speaker is talking.
iMovie '11, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
for the first version of iMovie ("iM-a") there were hundreds of plug-ins, e.g. geethree.com Slick, avail, to teach iM new effects & titles.
unfortunately, Apple hasn't documented an official API yet, to allow installation of 3rd party stuff in iM-b.
tell Apple an enhancement request:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/imovie.html
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a probably work-around for your actual problem could be usage of graphics containing transparencies in .png format ....
read my advice concerning 'creating new titles' on my website
https://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/imovie09tricks
Another idea...
You could do this with Motion, but I personally would do this with Keynote.
You can easily do the drop down animation of the bullets in Keynote. Then export as a quicktime file, which can be used in iMovie. You could have your speaker in a Picture in Picture video as the bullets were on the screen.
You could also do the whole thing in Keynote, and just embed your speakers video in Keynote.
I like this idea even better. I created the bullets in Keynote again. This time I created a green background on a gradient between two similar shades of green (green screen works better if the green is not too perfect).
Then I exported as a timed QuickTime movie.
I imported into iMovie and used this as a green screen clip over video.
Here are the results.
Text Effects in imovie
