How to make text continuous, unaffected by transitions, in iMovie 10.0.2?

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How to make text continuous, unaffected by transitions, in iMovie 10.0.2?

I am making a slideshow on iMovie 10.0.2, and I want to put a single caption for multiple pictures, but the text flashes off when the transitions happen, for a second, and come back on after the transition. Is there a way for the text to be continuous, unaffected by the transitions? It is distracting to watch the pictures when the text flashes off and back on for a second.

I used the automatic content to add the transitions and duration of the pictures, and I think this may be affecting it, but I am not sure.

Thanks for any help!!

iMovie (iOS), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 8, 2014 3:48 PM

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Answer 1

OGELTHORPE

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Apr 8, 2014 3:51 PM in response to tlhoffman17

I will request that your query be relocated to the iMovie forum where knowledgeable iMovie users will be able to assist you.

Ciao.

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Answer 2

Apr 8, 2014 3:57 PM in response to tlhoffman17

One way to accomplish it is to first create your slide show than Share it to a file.

Reimport that file to iMovie and then go through and add your titling.

Matt

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Apr 8, 2014 4:11 PM in response to tlhoffman17

Very strange as I can't reproduce your problem. Spanning a title over clips with transitions has no effect on the title during the transition. Have you tried different titles to see if it happens with all?

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Apr 8, 2014 4:20 PM in response to Jim Wanamaker

Jim's right.

My workaround shouldn't be necessary.

<att

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tlhoffman17 Author

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Apr 8, 2014 4:43 PM in response to Jim Wanamaker

It happens with all titles I try. When I first created the slide show, I was manually changing the duration and adding the transitions, and the transitions have no effect on the title. But because I have a lot of pictures in the slide show, I used the automatic content to automatically change the duration and insert transitions. This is when the text began to flash off with the transitions.

The beginning of the video is fine--transitions have no effect on the text, up until the point I switched to the automatic content. After that point is when the titles flash off with the transitions.

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Answer 6

Apr 8, 2014 5:01 PM in response to tlhoffman17

So if I understand correctly in the first part of you project you individually set the clip time and manually added transitions, and later you set the clip and transition time and selected automatic in the project properties. Did you select a theme?

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