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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