Man oh man. Going into production was scary for me: 1) because the only experience I have with video editing/making slideshows, etc is from class assignments, and 2) did I mention how computer illiterate I am? But I figured, if I could get through Audacity, Final Cut Express (Amen to Final Cut!), and Soundslides then I had some faith in myself of pulling a video together.
I decided to utilize iMovie from my Macbook because other programs were not as accessible to me. And, oh my gosh, I think I’m in love! I was surprised at how smoothly I glided through iMovie. I love the concept of having a library (with all the thumbnails of pictures/video segments you use) and doing the “drag and drop” thing. It was fun playing around with different transitions, texts, and color saturation/exposure/contrast for each photo/segment. Some challenges I faced were trying to control timing. Timing of how long a segment would play/photo would show for, timing of how long a song should be playing for, timing of transitions, etc.
Exporting was also scary because it would fluctuate from 20 minutes to 5 minutes 25 minutes, and so on. But, in the end, it exported just fine to Quicktime’s movie player!
