Practical Experience 2 with iMovie Day 3

The 3rd day was focused on learning some of the more advanced features!

Today I started more with music and learned about ducking, adding sound effects, and even taking sounds from other video and adding them to other videos that lack some noise (press shift + command key and drag).

Adding photos to my video will apply the "Ken Burns" effect giving movement to otherwise stagnant photos. It really is a nice touch to making movies.

The precision editor really allows for some very nice tool for fine tuning the video. I had no idea that you could get so detailed on your videos just with iMovie. I also learned about adding "beat markers" (can press the m key while trimming the clip). As long as you have the automatic transitions deselected on your project properties. The photos or even clips will snap to the beat of your music! A pretty cool feature if you ask me.

Under the Inspector Feature, I learned about how to add effects to my clip, which will help me personalize my videos even more! (You have to double click on the clip in order to choose an effect.) Also in the inspector, you can change the speed of the video: slow down, speed up or reverse it!

Freeze frames are cool as well! It's like taking a picture in the middle of your video. (Note: Freeze fram will not work if the video has been stabilized due to the zoom feature.)

I remember having a tv that would allow you to watch two shows at once through picture in picture. Well guess what, iMovie does this too! Also, I movie has a whole "advanced" features that you have to activate in order to use picture in picture as well as some other tools. (You will find this under iMovie preferences and you will need to select the box activating the advanced features.) The cutaway tool is similar except that it only allows you to see one video at a time, but one video will intersect with the main video.

Applying and editing a map, allows you to show travels to various destinations which would be great for geography or vacation videos.

I made it through the entire essentials training, now I hope I can find time to learn even more about imovie!