How to overlay a shape to video

I am editing my football highlight video and at the start of each clip I would like to add a circle or shadow around where I am on the screen for a just a second or two into each clip. I have looked at every option in the program, is this even possible in iMovie or no?

Karsten Schlüter has posted some good ways of doing this on his blog. You cannot do this in iMovie alone, but you can create these shapes in another tool and use them in iMovie.
http://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/imovie09tricks/how-to-add-a-pointer

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