Or click on the Crop icon in the centre toolbar (directly to the left of the Inspector icon) to bring up the selections in the Viewer. 5) Drag your video clip onto it as a picture-in-picture. 4) Bring that image into your iMovie timeline. 2) Drag your original image over that background image, at the top, leaving room for (later) the video clip at the bottom. Select the still clip (or clips) in the timeline, then press the C key on the keyboard - this will show the selections in the Viewer. 1) Make an additional 'background image', in the dimensions of your typical video (16x9, I assume). TIP: As well as using the gear icon I mentioned above, there are other ways to access the Fit, Crop and Ken Burns items in the Viewer. The preference you set is only applicable to the current project - it is not a universal setting for all projects. Note that whenever you start a new project, it is best to change the preference setting before adding any stills, unless of course you want the Ken Burns effect to apply to the stills. This will change the setting on all the images to your preference, that is, Fit or Crop. Now click on the gear icon on one of the stills and follow the procedure I outlined above. To change the setting on multiple stills, select all the stills so that they are enclosed in a yellow border (from the menu choose Edit > Select > Photos). Choose Fit (unless you wish to crop the picture - if so, select Crop). In the Viewer you will see 3 items at the upper left, named Fit, Crop and Ken Burns. To change the setting for the existing stills, click on the gear icon on the thumbnail in the timeline and choose 'Cropping, Ken Burns & Rotation' from the pop-up menu. In order to reset this, I had to launch Photos with the option key pushed and a menu will come up, create a new. What I had to do is to set Use as system photo library in the Photos preferences, but it was grayed out.

It means, when Imovie ask me if I want to convert the events and projects to the new version, of course I agreed. So, after I upgraded to macOS High Sierra 10.13, the Photos app updated and iMovie no longer attached it in the Library. If I plug my external drive on that one, It doesn't work. These are located on an external hard drive. This action will allow all stills that are subsequently added to the current project to remain stationary, that is, with no panning and zooming (Ken Burns) effect.ДЇor those stills already in your project, you will need to change the setting using another method as the method I've described only applies to new stills added to the project. One have IMovie 9.0.4 and works perfectly with my Medias. You have a choice between Fit in Frame, Crop and Ken Burns. In iMovie's menu click on File>Project Properties (the short-cut is Command-J) then change the selection in the item labelled 'Initial Photo Placement' to 'Fit in Frame'. This is probably what you are seeing when you add stills to your project.

You can choose existing iMovie project or create a new iMovie project to add photos. Here are the steps to Add Photos to a Video in iMovie: Open 'iMovie' on your Mac. The default setting for still images in iMovie is the Ken Burns effect which shows panning and zooming on the image. It allows you to search for a specific photo by using search field.

Picture in picture in imovie 10.1.4