Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Today I'm going to show you how to add a camcorder
effect to your video using iMovie and Keynote.
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So you can add a camcorder effect to your
video in a lot of different ways.
You can use special apps but those will usually
overlay it live and you're stuck with it on
the video.
You can't really alter it afterwards.
Or there are apps that only have a limited
number of functions.
You can also use a special effect in Final
Cut Pro if you own it.
But you could do the same kind of thing using
just iMovie and Keynote.
As a matter of fact you can do it in a way
that makes it very customizable.
We're going to start off by going into Keynote.
We want to choose a wide theme so it matches
the video dimensions and we're just going
to go with a black background.
I'm going to zoom out to fit everything into
the slide and I'm going to delete the default
text here.
So there are a bunch of different elements
that I want to add.
I want to add the little squared off corners.
I want to add a red record dot and the word
record, a date, and maybe a battery level.
All sorts of things.
So to add the corners I'm going to go to Shape
and I'm going to click the Pen tool.
Click once to put a point.
Now to put the second point I'm going hold
the Shift key down so I have a horizontal
line.
Then I'm going to draw it to about here.
Click again.
Then I'm going to hold the shift key again
and draw the vertical line.
Like that.
I'm going to hit Return so I'm finished.
Go to Format, Style and then change it to
be a 4 Pt line.
Now I'm going to drag it to the corner.
So I'm going to click off of it and then click
it again so I select it as an object.
Drag to the corner.
I'm going to move it away from the corner.
So I'm going to hold the Shift key and do
the right arrow five times and the down arrow
five times.
By holding the Shift key I'm moving in steps
of ten instead of steps of one.
So I quickly move away from the edge.
Now to duplicate it I'm going to hold the
Option key and click and drag.
I'm going to drag it all the way to the bottom
here and move it away from the bottom with
those five Shift up arrows.
It already was moved away from the left because
I was locking it to the position of the one
on the top.
I'm going to go to Arrange and Flip Vertically.
So now I've got the left side here.
I'm going to select both of these, Option
drag over to the right and it'll lock to these
vertically.
But I'm going to Shift left arrow five times
so that it's away from there.
Then Arrange and Flip Horizontally.
Now I have my four corners.
Next I want to do the red record circle.
So I'm going to go to Shape.
Choose circle.
I'm going to drag this off here to the corner.
Maybe make it a little bit smaller.
I'll hold the Shift key there as well so now
it will shrink as a circle.
It won't just shrink in the one dimension.
Get it to be a red dot to about that size.
I'm going to go to Style over here and change
the color fill to red.
Let's add some text.
Click there and I'm going to add the text
RECORDING.
Go and select it all and under text here I'm
going to increase the size.
Maybe 50 will be better.
Now I'm going to drag this and put it right
there.
Now let's add some more elements.
I can Option drag the text here and put a
copy of it down there.
I'm going to go into Text and left justify
it.
So now I can type and it will come out of
the left side.
I'm going to put a date.
Now I'm going to put a battery here.
Now I go to Shape and I don't have to create
a battery shape.
I can Search for it.
There actually is a battery shape there.
So I can move this to the corner here.
I will maybe adjust its size a little bit.
I'm going to go to Style and change its color
to white.
I can also go here and go to Format, Shape
& Lines, Break apart and it breaks apart the
outside and the inside of the battery.
Under Arrange turn off Constrained Proportions.
Now I can drag just one edge of it and make
it look like the battery is being drained
a bit.
I can do other things as well.
I could create a little video tape icon down
there.
So I'm going to do a circle, Option drag moves
that apart.
Select both circles.
Go to Style.
No Fill.
Border is going to be a line border at 4 pts.
I'm going to add a line there and move it
so it snaps to the top of each circle like
that.
Change that to 4 pts as well.
Add a rectangle to it.
Change that to No Fill and a line border.
Move it around.
There we go.
Select All of those and go to Arrange Group.
Move this down to the corner here and shrink
it a bit.
I could have also used Shape and then done
record and there's this little camera shape
there and I could use that.
Now that I've got all this I want to create
an animation.
I want to have the red dot blink.
That will make it more than just a simple
overlay.
So to make the red dot blink I'm going to
Control click on this slide here and duplicate
the slide.
On the second slide I'm going to Delete the
red dot.
So I've got a red dot and no red dot.
I'm going to go to the first slide here and
under Animate I'm going to set the transition
to Automatic and one second delay.
This slide will automatically go to the next
one after one second.
I'm going to do the same thing for the second
slide.
Basically one second per slide.
Now it will blink!
Now I select both slides, Shift clicking there,
and Command C to Copy and Command V to Paste
and I can paste it in.
Each time I paste it in I'm adding two seconds
here.
So if I paste it in for a total of thirty
slides then I end up with one minute of video.
Which will be fine.
So right now I'm going to make a video that
has a black background.
I need it to be a transparent background.
You can do that in Keynote.
So the background for each slide is separate.
So I'm going to select the first slide.
Go to the bottom and select the last slide
with the Shift key held down so it selects
All slides.
I'm then going to go to Format and I can see
here for Slide Layout I've got color fill
for the background.
I want to change that to No Fill.
So basically a transparent background.
Now when I go to Export the movie I can export
to a movie and I can select Resolution, Custom.
Custom resolution I want it set to be 1920
x 1080, like video, and I want it to Apple
ProRes 4444.
This provides for a transparent layer.
You can even see there's a checkbox here Export
with transparent backgrounds.
It says it only applies if there's No Fill
set to the slide and I've set No Fill for
all slides.
I have that checked off.
So now I can Save this out as a video.
So now I have this video overlay.
All I need to do is apply it in iMovie.
So I can drag and drop this overlay video
in.
I want to put it above the video here so it
works as a cutaway.
I don't want to put it inline with it or try
to put it on top of it.
So I put it above.
Now I can adjust it so it starts here at the
beginning.
I can see it says Cutaway here which is what
I want.
You can see in the preview it already looks
good.
It's already overlaid on top of this.
If I move the Playback cursor you can see
the dot blinks.
So now when I play it I get exactly the kind
of effect I want.
But I'm not done yet.
The next step is to make the video look like
it's old camcorder footage.
You can do that with a filter.
So I'm going to select the main video here
and I'm going to go to the Filters here.
I'm going to click on Clip filter which is
set to None.
There's one called Raster which works really
well.
So I'm going to select that one.
Now you can see how definitely it shows that
it's just not standard iPhone video.
It does look a little bit older.
I can continue to work with it a bit.
I can click on Color adjustments here and
maybe adjust the color a little bit.
Desaturate it a little bit.
I can play with all of this.
You especially want to do this if you're mixing
this camcorder footage with regular footage
and that way it shows more of a contrast between
the two.
Now we can adjust the overlay here to match
perfectly.
If I need more than a minute's worth I could
have always Option dragged to create another
copy of this overlay here and then had minute
number 2 and minute number 3 as much as I
need it.
Now even if you have Final Cut Pro or some
other app that gives you a camcorder effect
this may be better because you can really
highly customize this.
You know I could put a flashing low battery
message over this.
I could say surveillance video.
I could do all sorts of different things to
make this look really cool and fit exactly
what I want.
