How to Create a Video Overlay

This overlay makes your video look like an old, decaying film. It’s perfect for creating a 90s-style music video.

This overlay adds a crackling, flickering old TV sound and appearance to your film. You can make your clip look like a classic sitcom or Twilight Zone episode with this effect.

These overlays create digital distortion on your video, which is excellent for creating a science fiction or horror aesthetic.

This overlay creates the effect of a camera snapping shots with light leaks and geometric shapes. It’s a nice way to create the effect of a photoshoot, perfect for fashion-related videos.

This overly places an old-fashioned camcorder frame over the video, making it look like the filming of an old home movie. It’s a great overlay for family footage. You can also add a rewind effect when using this overlay.

This green-tinged overlay is perfect for military action clips. Let your video unfold from the viewpoint of a soldier or spy.

This nostalgic overlay converts your video from HD to the grainy film quality of a bygone era. It’s an easy way to age your video.

This overlay adds a binary graphic to your video with moving lines of zeros and ones. This one is perfect for tech-related videos.

This graphic adds undulating clouds of smoke streaming across the screen over your video. It’s an excellent effect for creating a mysterious aura.

This one appeals to the kid in all of us. Bubbles float across the screen over your film, adding a sense of childish fun.

Add a steady fall of snow to create a chilly atmosphere. Your video’s viewers will shiver and grab a jacket.

This one will make your video look like an old VHS tape, grainy flickering and static lines included. You can use this one to make your video nostalgic or creepy, depending on the content.

Nothing says “love” like a rain of shiny red Valentine hearts. This overlay is perfect for engagement announcements and other romantic topics.

This trippy, rotating overlay adds a surreal layer to any video. The graphic rotates in a dizzying manner, disorienting the viewer.

Create a sense of urgency or excitement with this overlay as the numbers click down to zero. It’s an excellent choice for marketing a product release.

Similar to the previous overlay, but with digital distortion thrown in to make it even more unnerving.

This overlay adds some fun with falling, multi-hued spheres. Perfect for a cartoony effect.

Add an aquatic effect to your video with these rolling waves. Create the relaxing sensation of floating in a swimming pool.

These champagne-colored orbs of light add a sense of romance and seduction. Excellent for anniversary or Valentine’s Day-related clips.

A prism of light splashes across your video with this overlay. Add some color and movement to any clip.

The motion of these colorful orbs of light adds some light-heartedness and beauty to a video.

This creepy, transparent overlay adds a sense of dread and makes the skin crawl.

Another digital-reference overlay that is perfect for videos about hacking or computer programming.

This overlap, colored light streaks adds a visually stunning effect.

This effect is visually appealing and can add an extra layer of meaning to your video.

This overlay is perfect for Christmas-related clips. Layer this one over your video and grab a cup of hot cocoa.

Open the file you’ve downloaded and follow the on-screen instructions to install the software on your computer.

Launch the overlay video editor and click Add Files and upload the videos you want to work with. The files will appear in the Media Bin. Drag and drop them onto the Timeline in the lower part of the program window.

Select the video you want to put on top of the background clip and drag it to a position above the Video Track. The Overlay Track will appear – drop your video there. In the preview screen, you will see your foreground video covering one fourth of the background video.

If you want, you can add motion to your foreground clips. To do this, select a video on the Timeline, go to the Animation menu, open the Advanced section, and click Add Animation.

Then, in the preview window, drag your object to where you want it to move. Drag the keyframes on the Timeline to set the time and length of the animation. You can add new keyframes by clicking Add Keyframe. You can also edit and remove any keyframes on the Timeline – to do this, right-click on a keyframe to open a context menu.

Click the Export button, choose the destination folder in the Save to field, and select the video format from the tabs on the left of the export window. Then click Start. Now you know how to overlay a video on a video using Movavi’s software!