PE2_imovie

Good Morning! Well, I am up bright and early watching Lynda.com imovie tutorials and working on my practice movie. I am about halfway through and I am all ready like imovie much more. I am wishing we had done back in the beginning when we first started using imovie because I had no idea what I was doing and the imovie tutorial that comes with imovie was not helpful.

So I started a new project. I decided to work with some video I took over winter break of my kids. I decided to do this project without a theme so that I could learn how to use transitions and such manually. I split up the long film clips so that I was using only highlights (because really, videos of kids have a LOT of unusable footage). I also rearranged the clips to flow better. I have put in titles and transitions. I know the tutorial said to avoid doing the rookie mistake of using too many transitions, but some ended weird and only a transition would make it look better. I only used one "fancy" transition. I am going to need to trim or tweak the sound levels some of the clips in the "princess Sophia" section because the sound in the clips is not good because my young daughter was off camera, screaming, but I want to keep the music that was playing in the background at the time. I might end up just muting the sound in those clips and downloading the nutcracker music and inserting the music that way. I will eventually have to edit the time of some of the clips to make the movie 1 minute.