Friday, November 4, 2011

PE2_iMovie

As I finished up the “Editing Video” section, I put my game face on!  I feel like these last sections are where I will grow the most.  As I reached the “Working with Effects” and “Working with Audio” sections of the training, I really became more interested.  These were the features that I was dying to learn about and had very limited knowledge about.

After listening to the “Working with Effects” portion I decided to take a break and play with some video footage of my own.  I had actually filmed kids from my ELD class retelling a story that we read as a whole class.  They acted it out with little popsicle stick puppets and really put on a show.  :) 

So, taking my newly acquired knowledge I set out to create a video of them performing, while including still shots of the book pages. Looking back, my favorite part was learning that I could crop the video.  I knew that still images could be cropped, but it never occurred to me that video could be cropped too!  LOVE IT!  After the video parts were pretty much done, I wanted to work on the audio. I tried to mask the background noises (of all the other kids practicing the story) by adding a soundtrack and realized that I had a perfect segue into watching the next portion of training videos. 




I’m so glad that I stopped and took a break from my video!  I would have spent so much extra time trying to figure out how to get rid of the other children’s voices in the background OR I would have just left the music and hoped that no one noticed. :P  The Lynda.com iMovie training video was a life saver…well, more like a totally TIME SAVER!  After going through the original video, it took me like 5 minutes to adjust the sound levels to the correct settings.  HOORAY!

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