Adding arrows to Highlight film in imovie

I am creating a sports highlight film in i movie and need to be able to add arrows in certain clips. This will make it so that you can see which player is the one the viewer is supposed to be paying attention to. I just need to be able to put an arrow above a persons head for a short period of time. Thanks

Hi Julie,
It should work if you have followed Karsten's instructions to the letter. The key for me was to ensure that Project Properties was set to Crop for Initial Photo Placement, before inserting the .png Picture in Picture image. Also, don't click on any of the image settings in the Preview window (Fit, Crop or Ken Burns) when sizing and positioning the PIP, as that may destroy the transparency.
Note that setting Initial Photo Placement to Ken Burns also works, but the PIP pointer will show movement (as in a normal Ken Burns photo). The black background only appears when Fit in Frame is selected in Project Properties - at least that was my experience. I'm not sure why you are seeing a white background - perhaps Karsten has some ideas.
John

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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12391949#12391949\
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I am making football highlight films and was wondering if anyone has had success in placing some type of a highlight feature on a specific player on the field ? Examples are an arrow or circle or square on the featured player only for a brief moment to help coaches to locate the player of their interest.
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… when the movie plays and reaches the section with the highlighted segment of the clip the video freezes and the circle I selected is not visable, …
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… as mentioned in the description. That's a 'flaw' of this work-around.
you can use any picture/illustration/symbol you like, as long it contains transparency and is saved as a .png
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but for some reason I can't stop imovie, panning in and out on individual photo's/clips of my film, so whereas when i flick through the photo's on my camera, it creates a pretty good stop motion film, but on movie it looks as though I've held everything by hand not using a tripod, making it jaunty and not playing well.
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You're using iMovie HD, right?
If that's the case Gee Three makes a plugin called Whiteboard that might be what you're looking for.
It's part of their Slick Volume 6. You'll have to buy the whole package to get it.
http://www.geethree.com/slick/galleries/s6demopages/s6whiteboard2.html
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http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/moviecanvas.html
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