How do i change the font in the Titles that come with the new iMovie?

Hello aabreuPT,

Thank you for the question. It sounds like you are aware of the steps to take to edit the titles in iMovie, but some titles will not allow you to change the font. It is important to note that the font of some titles cannot be changed:

Note: Some title styles have elements that can’t be changed; in these cases some title settings may be disabled.

iMovie Help - Edit a title

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov9c5e9641f

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Best,

Sheila M.

No. It seems that ANY title I choose everything is grayed out. This is ABSURD.

Agreed. The new version of iMovie is utterly disappointing. Great way to break something that wasn't broken Apple. NIce job. 😟

I believe it's the first 16 titles that do not allow the changes. The ones after that seem to allow changes.

@theBikeman, True the first 16 titles cannot have their font or font size changed. However, with the others, although you can change the font, you still cannot change the font size.

@awason, Just found out a work around to change the font size on all but the first 16 titles. You can highlight and copy the text in the iMovie title, then paste it into a mail, text edit, pages, etc window and there you can change the font siz. Then copy it and paste it back into iMovie, it will retain the new font size. Strange thing is you need to repeat the whole process if you want to change the size again.

Less than optimal, but it does allow you to change the font size.

Hope this helps.

theBikeman

Hi there,

I am not an expert but i found another workaround that might work - create your title with your desired effects in Keynote and put a blue (or green) background on it. Export as Quicktime movie then import using bluescreen feature. Not ideal but somewhat customizable. 🙂

Thank You

Come on... It's simply unacceptable an editor like this. It's seems more a joke than an application. Please make something near the quality that we expect, or I'll be glad to make jokes on facebook about this major fail app. It explains wy it's free now.

Thanks @theBikeman. Although not ideal, the workaround works, albeit quite painful to do for every font change, but it works.

It is clearly a bug, since in some tittles the font name appears and othes don't, but even when they appear they are not editable.

I found a work around that works for me. I have opened an event from the previous Imovie and copy/pasted the text into the new imovie. Once I pasted the text I am able to change fonts. Try "Standard" text for an example.

no matter what kind of font that I choose, I never ever see the about selection available. I mean NOT all of them. This is crazy..

Eureka!

Jeepers it took a while. 😢

Go to "All Projects" in the menu bar! 😉

Workaround for font issue for iMovie (Mavericks).

Problem: Unable to change/edit default font when adding text to movie project.

Observation: Except for “Boogie Lights” and “Centered”, none of the Text templates allow change from the default.

Ah, but there is a work-around, I learned.

Solution:

1. Go ahead add your desired text title to the movie project.

2. Elsewhere in the movie project, add “Centered” Title.

3. Selected ‘Show Fonts…’ under drop down menu under the capital T for text/font editing.

4. font panel window will open

5. Then go back to your desired title and edit the text.

Observation: Cannot seem to edit the text size, but can change the font and color.

Aside: The other day I idled into an Apple Store with my friend to see about his laptop trouble. While he was being waited upon, I asked a random Apple person about this iMoive issue. He did not know the answer and went away to ask some one who might. He returned with this suggestion and we walked-through the solution.

Lesson learned: Sometimes it pays to ask.