PE3_imovie

Congratulations to me! I am an iMovie beginning expert. I really like all the options available in creating movies. However, I still think, in terms of ease, Movie Maker is easier. The coolest option in iMovie has to be the green screen effect. Now, I don't have a green area to film, but that would be interesting to learn more about. There was a lot of feature that I never would have thought to do with a movie and when it came to my own clips I didn't know where to begin. I really got to liking the lynda.com tutorial. I liked that the tutorial, though over two hours, was broken down into very short segments. That made it much easier to take was I learned and try to apply it to my own video I had going at the same time. I had a lot less video to work with since I have only scarcely started to use my new video camera, so many of the more advanced things he did with the video (like picture in picture) I just didn't have the extra video to do that.

What I did do to finish my movie was as in pictures also taken during winter break. I also used video feature to the clips of Sophia dancing. I choose the feature that blackened the corners, I did this to take the focus away from some of the distracting background stuff. I also tweaked the pictures I added. The picture with the twinkled lights I adjusted the light options to make the colors in the picture stand out better. For the picture just before the credits, I tweaked the fade options. I also added clapping sound effects to end of the dance clips after muting the clip sounds so you don't hear Evie screaming in the background. I also applied ducking to the Coco video clips so the music would not over power the voices.

So I hope you enjoy watching what my kids did over winter break.