How Do I Add Lyrics to My iMovie?

Aug 20, 2006
Adding Text (lyrics) to my iMovie music video
Posted: May 25, 2008 7:50 AM
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Hi, Everyone:
I'm a musician. I have simple videos of myself singing and playing guitar. I want to add lyrics to the movie---perfectly timed so that when the words leave my mouth, they show up in text on the bottom of the video---kind of like a follow the bouncing ball, karaoke thing.
Can someone spell out clearly how I can go about doing this?
Thanks so much, Ernie

Hi
My guessing is that this is pretty hard to do in iMovie'08.
Slightly better done in iMovie HD 6 where You got a better frame control on
where You add Your texts (in time - not in space - text tool isn't so good)
Full control of both space and time: FinalCut Express/Pro
Still this is a tedious task and tools for text-settings i realtime as in broadcasted
materials are not easy to find and expencive. I think that "Media-100" or
any other pro-applications might have links to this. Price in fantacy.
I write my texts down in a word-processor and Cut & Past
(when text setting a movie or part of it)
Yours Bengt W

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