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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'm having the same problem.

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 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.

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

Where were you all my life? This is effin' brilliant. Thanks with an x, with no h, whichever you like! And all the smiley faces in the world.

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.

Ditto on the frustration. It shouldn't be this complicated to stop a movie from fading at the end!

I right clicked the image and selected "project properties" and removed the title fade out duration. However, I'm using imovie 11, so things have probably changed since then.

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?

Thank you, that solved it for me!