Using Memoji Creatively In Presentations, Documents, Videos and More

Memoji are fun to use in Messages on your iPhone or as stickers on your Mac, but you can use them for so much more. But creating little characters that look like you, colleagues or students you can make better presentations, documents and videos.
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Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let's take a look at some creative uses for Memoji. 
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So you may be familiar with Memoji from getting little things like this in a message or making one yourself. But you can do a lot of other creative things Memoji in projects that have nothing to do with messages. Let's start off here in the Messages App. You can actually create Memoji in System Preferences under Users & Groups. But you can't actually do anything with them there. So the Messages App is where you can make them and actually bring them out of Messages to use elsewhere.
I'm going to click here and then go to Memoji stickers. On the iPhone, which we're going to look at in a few minutes, you can actually have Memoji imitate you through the TrueDepth camera looking at your face and then not only recording your actions but your voice as well. On the Mac you can't do that because you don't have a TrueDepth camera but you can create the Memoji here. So you can see here I've got one created. You can click here and you can Edit the existing one. You can also duplicate one or create a new one here. So you go into New and create something there. Go through all of the different settings to create your own unique Memoji.
Once you have one, since you can't actually set it to a particular face position or anything like that on your Mac, you can go through these stickers here and pick one of them out and it will use the Memoji you created. So let's go pick the last one here and I'm going to double click on it to add it to a message. Now I'm not actually going to send it to anybody. I'm going to go right here and Control Click on it and I can Copy. Now I can go into an app, like here I am in a presentation in Keynote. If I were to Paste it actually pastes the Memoji in here. It's pretty small but the resolution is good so you can actually enlarge it quite a bit. It's a little hard to see here with the dark hair and the dark background but if I go to Shadow here I can actually create a drop shadow, set it to white, give it a pretty large blur, and now it kind of stands out a little bit on the background.
So let's make the slide more interesting. I'm going to put the title up here. Let's shrink this text down a little bit and make it a little smaller. Then let's put it inside of a shape that's a speech bubble like this. I'll take the speech bubble and let's make it something with the style of a white border. So I'll do a border like that. Make it a larger border. Make it white. Then the Fill we'll actually turn off here. So I can select here No Fill. Like that. I could take this text and I'll actually cut it out of the text box and get rid of this text box and paste it here inside the speech bubble like that. Adjust it. Let's center it. Move the point there. I'll keep adjusting until I get what I want. Do something like this which makes the slide a little bit more fun here. So you can imagine a presentation where it's a Memoji of you or a character that you create that's actually narrating the presentation rather then it just be text sitting there on the screen.
Now as I said it doesn't have to be you. You can create a Memoji and make it someone else. So let's say you're in charge of putting together a booklet of people working together at your company or on a team or maybe a classroom with kids and you're pretty handy at making these Memoji you could make those for each person in the group. Then create a kind of document introducing everybody to each other. (demonstrating making this.) So here I've this person here. Done. I've got this Memoji now and I can choose one of these here and then export it the same way I did before. I'm going to Control Click, Copy and this time I'm going to go into a Pages document. I'm using a sample resume template here but imagine this is like a little book that you're making with each page is a person. You may try to get their photograph and put a different photograph for each person on the page. Or if I were to Paste here I can actually make a Memoji for each one of those which would be fun for all the people getting it. They'll be flipping through to see how you designed each person's Memoji to use there.
Since you've got all of these different sticker poses that you can use you can go back and use these Memoji over and over again for different things having to do with that team or class. Imagine all the different things that you could use these for that would make them more interesting than photos. For instance you might want to use it on a business card or promotional flyer or something like that. Maybe even if you're building a website having these as little pictures of each person on your team on the About page.
I have actually paste these right here on the Finder and you could see it actually appears as a png and it's semi-transparent too. So whatever background you place this on it's going to work.
Now if you make these in the iPhone rather than on your Mac you have some other things that you can do. For one you could go in here and you can actually pose them. So instead of choosing Stickers right here and using one of the prebuilt stickers you can just go to Memoji right here and actually use one of these and you could see how it's actually seeing my facial expressions and talking with me. You can use one that's not even you. Well, if you take a pose and then that's when you click on it it actually will appear there with that pose. So now you can use the Memoji with any expression.
In addition you could also record. So let's go back to me and I'm going to do a recording. I've already done one right here but if I record it's not only going to record my talking as a Memoji but it will record my voice as well. You've got 30 seconds. It's going to mimic your face and it's going to record your voice. This is a test of recording Memoji. (This is a test.) and I'm going to go to send it by using that button there. So the idea here is that you maybe want to send it to a test account that you're created. I of course have several different iCloud account for testing here. If you have another one you can send it basically to yourself and then you get this here. If you go back to your Mac and you look either from your account as the sender or the recipient then you've got this right here and you can drag and drop this and look at that. It's a video file! I can look at it in QuickLook. It even has a semi-transparent background.
So I can go back in here to Keynote and I can Drag and Drop this onto a slide. You can see how it is semi-transparent there so it can appear on top of anything and the background shows through. It's a video. I can go in here to Movie and I can set it to start on Click or not, just have it start automatically when it goes to the slide. So you can have a talking head. Maybe even a different character talking on each slide of your presentation, if you like. Or just take these and edit them and use them as Picture-in-Picture in iMovie, for instance. Here in iMovie I can just Drag and Drop this on here. As Picture-in-Picture it actually will be semi-transparent there. So i can go in here and change from Cut-away to Picture-in-Picture and then move it around to wherever I want. The audio is there with it. You can see the audio waveform. So you can have a talking head that appears on various pieces of your video. You could trim it to exactly what you want. Make some 30 second clips to add in.
So you can see there's a lot of interesting possibilities for creating Memoji either of yourself or other people and using them in documents, in websites, in presentations, even in videos. I hope you found this useful. Thanks for watching.
Using Memoji Creatively In Presentations, Documents, Videos and More

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