That’s it, your saved video file will have the overlay text you wrote out now in the placement of your choice in the movie. When satisfied, you can save your video by going to the File menu and choosing “Share” (why is there not a general Save option? Who knows!) and selecting ‘File’, clicking “Next” and now you’ll finally be at a normal save dialog where you can put the video file somewhere you can find it on the Mac.Edit the text as it appears in the preview screen, change the font size, font family face, font weight, and other text elements.Double-click on the title (text) style you want to use, the most generic without any weird animations is often “Center” but explore the others, there’s a lot of fancy ones.Click on the “Titles” portion under “Content Library” in the left side menus.Place your mouse cursor in the movie timeline where you want to place the text to overlay the video.Now drag the thumbnail of the movie you just imported into the video timeline below.Click the “Import Media” button, select the movie or video file you want to add some text atop of, and choose “Import Selected”.

Go to the “File” menu and choose “New Movie” – select “No Theme” (or choose a theme if you want one, your call), give the movie a name and click “OK”.This is demonstrated from start to finish using the latest version of iMovie on the latest version of MacOS X, showing how to add a text overlay to a video, then save the video as a file on the Mac.

How to Overlay Text on a Video with iMovie for Mac OS X

But worry not, we’re going to show you exactly how to put text onto a movie using iMovie in Mac OS X, the video file you modify can be any you have access to. You’ll find that overlaying text onto movies is fairly easy using iMovie in OS X once you learn how to do it, but it can be quite confusing to figure out how to access the text tools let alone how to save your video file the first time you use iMovie on the Mac, at least compared to the easier iOS version.

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