Remove fade-ins and fade-outs from titles in iMovie '13?

Having the same problem. It's driving me nuts.

Issues:

1. I can't remove a drop shadow from texts (the font control box isn't even showing it as an option)

2. I can't remove fade in/out from texts

Apple, please fix these issues. These are basic functions (that were a part of older versions).

I had the same problem which I got around by first adjusting my text to the desired length and font, then dragging the text to the main video line (that is if you're using text as overlay), right-click and select add freeze frame.

A freeze frame of your text will appear - removing the fades - delete the front and back ends of the original text file, drag the freeze frame back over the part of the video you want to overlay your text on.

I'm confused.

How is it that this new version of iMovie lacks the most basic ability to adjust text sizes or remove text effects? I'm talking about the ability to just put unmoving, unfading, unflaring, plain-old, simple text of different sizes on the screen. This new version makes it basically impossible to do simple tasks like make subtitles.

For all of its bells and whistles it would be impossible to make a simple, silent black and white film like those people were making over 100 years ago—because the "new" iMovie lacks the ability to do simple intertitles!

I'm talking about white text centered on a black background. In 2014, I can't type white text on a black background and format it. On an Apple product. I can do that on TextEdit, why can't I do that on iMovie 13?

Someone please tell me I'm missing something here.

One fairly simple way I did it was using google drawings. Create a new drawing and type out the text you want in the correct font/color/size you want.

The important thing here is to make sure you have no background behind the text.

Then, go to file --> download as --> PNG image (.png). This is necessary, or else you will get an unwanted white background to your text.

Then, save the .png file to your desktop, and drag it into your project media. Finally, you have to drag the image, which (if your text is black) will look like a plain black image,

over the video or photo you want the text to appear over.

The final product isn't perfect and may look a bit blurry, but works for my purposes.

Hello Benlands

You can remove the transitions by clicking on the transition icon and then hitting delete to remove it. Also there is a transition button to bring up the different transitions options located in the lower left hand corner.

Transitions overview

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#movc4d4036d4

Regards,

-Norm G.

bad design.. someone at Apple should address this, we should be able to add titles without fade-in effects and/or have the ability to easily remove these effects.

Transitions are a different thing, this is about the fade effects on titles, not fades between clips. You used to be able to access the preferences via the inspector or in the project preferences, now there seems to be neither option and the titles fade in and out which is very annoying if you're using them as subtitles for rapid speech.

I am having the same problem and it is very annoying. There is no way for titles to just appear without the fade in and fade out.

The workaround that guinever is too much work. Sorry to complain, I was just in the middle of a project I was saving for Winter Break and now I come back to this after being so excited to upgrade to Mavericks.

Can someone from Apple respond to this? Like the others, I just want to have white text on a black background and I DO NOT want it to fade. Is this possible or do we have download iMovie from a few years ago?

Sorry, I'm not an expert but I managed to find a solution. I just doubled clicked on the part of the clip that i didn't want to be faded and it appeared in 'the box'. There you are able to expand or contract your image according to how much you want your image to fade in and out. This is done by expanding the start and finish size of your image. I just expanded the image so that the start and end sizes were the same which meant that there was no fade adjustment. I hope this helps.🙂

The only place I want to do this is at the very end of the movie. So I "shared" the movie as a file, then opened the mp4 file with QuickTime Player. I then went to the "Edit" menu of QuickTime Player and chose "Trim." This brings up a simple trimming interface. Trim the end of the video to eliminate the fade, then close the window and you'll be prompted to save the video under a new name. Done!

(Don't enter a file extension — it got real grumpy when I did that.)

Of course if you want this change for a lot of titles in the same movie this is not useful, but it's quite useful for the common case where you want to leave text visible at the end. And yeah, Apple, please at least provide a way to do that much. Making a Kickstarter is kind of the classic use case for iMovie...

This has frustrated me, too, but I've found three solutions that might help.

--The first thing I did was copy the clip that I wanted to subtitle, open it in a new project, extend its length, and add the fading in and fading out text. I then exported it back to the original project, and trimmed the ends . . . which gave me the subtitle without the annoying fades. This, of course, takes many steps, and in the process I discovered Subler.

--Subler is a program (and there are many like this) that add true subtitles to projects, such as translations to movies. It looks very tedious--you have to assign which frame the subtitle starts and ends on--but if you are translating an entire film, you have to do it. You can put the titles at the top or bottom and change the color, but there's not a lot (that I saw) in changing fonts or anything like that. In effect, you put your video and a subtitle file together, and this program burns the titles onto the film.

--Then I discovered the best solution (for what I needed). Create your titles in any design program and export them with a transparent background. Simply import them into your project and use them as a overlay--either a cutaway or a picture-in-picture--and as long as the background is transparent, the titles will show over your scene.

I was very frustrated that Apple changed the ability to control the fading in and out, but I'm happy that I stumbled upon these solutions. I hope they help.

It's 2017 and I'm scouring the internet for a solution to this problem. I found a hack that I'm sharing here. It will only work if you have the exact same requirement as I did... which was to have the title stay on till the end of the video. I wanted the video to end on the last scene with the title still visible.

To do this, I extended the title frame in the timeline well beyond the end of the video. This way I was able to time the fade out to occur after the frame that I wanted to capture. I moved the playhead to the end of the video (last frame of my video + text just before it fades out) and then clicked the 'share' button and saved an image. Then I imported this saved image into my media and added it to the timeline at the end of my video. The end result was what I wanted with a tiny glitch where the title text overlapped with the image for a few seconds - the text appears to be 'bold' for those few seconds of the video.

I'm having the same problem.

Thank you for this though. It does work! Just a pain when I have 365 titles to do this to.