Add titles and text.

You can add informative text over any video clip, photo, or background in the timeline. Use titles to introduce a topic, identify a person, define a term, or add context to what’s onscreen.

Try it.

Add a title to your movie. Open the Titles tab in the browser, choose a title style, then drag the title to the timeline, above the clip where you want it to appear.

Apply it.

  • Enhance viewer interest by identifying interview subjects, objects, or locations. Add a lower‑screen title that stays onscreen long enough to read.

  • Increase vocabulary comprehension using titles. Assign a video project that requires students to label important items with titles.

Go further.

iMovie includes built‑in animated maps and globes that make it easy to illustrate the location of an event or trace the path of a journey across the globe. Choose from multiple map and globe styles in the Backgrounds tab of the browser.

Learn more about adding maps and backgrounds