Friday, November 4, 2011

PE1_iMovie

When the EMDT program started I had never touched a Mac before and it all seemed a bit overwhelming. I have always been a PC girl, raised by a very PC technician father. As I dig deeper I love all the opportunities that are available on a Mac, and how easy they are to learn. Lynda.com is such a great tool to help me with this process.
After watching the first third of the iMovie tutorial I feel like I have a better grasp about how to organize and work my clips. In month one we started using iMovie and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the ins and outs of the program. From the first section of the tutorial I already had a basic understanding of how to import clips and begin a basic movie. Some features that I did not know how to use would include how to tag the clips with certain keywords to find later. I think this is a good feature to have, especially when I start to collect more clips on iMovie. I also liked that you can discard segments of videos that you may not use, but you can go back and find it later incase you change your mind. The favorites category can also be handy to quickly bring up all of the best shots.

It is nice to know what all of the icons on the toolbar are and how I can use them to the full extent. With the advanced tools I learned about how to organize clips faster and highlight what is important for my project or for a future project.
Loading clips onto iMovie seems easier now with the steps that were highlighted. This brought me new ideas to use with old footage I have of vacations that I can now actually do something with, and create a video that I would love to show to others. I am excited to take out my video camera and see what all I can create.

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