How To Make A Video Using iMovie Part 2
Now we're going to open iMovie and we can start editing. As you can see I've already organized all the footage and it's all matched to its original camera audio. I am now going to take the video audio off and I have the audio from the recorder set up for the videos. I showed how to do all of this in the last video.
Now we're going to start editing and you can see here I have a wide shot and then I have another wide shot and basically this tells me the first wide shot is garbage because we had to retake the scene.
The same thing here, I have several of the same angle and right here's the last one so I know that I can delete the earlier ones. Now if you're going to prepare blooper reels and stuff you're going to want to play every single clip and save anything that is useful for those kinds of funny moments. But I'm just going to keep it simple for the purpose of showing you how to edit.
I'm going to play through the beginning of this clip. This is kind of where I keep watching and use my arrow keys to get it to the precise spot that I want. So then I will lasso the entire clip and the audio clip and I will cut it. “Split clip.”
Now this is just technique but what I usually do now is I go into backgrounds and I add a black screen. Just drag and drop it. Then what I do is on one side of the black is what I'm editing. So on the left of the black is the movie and on the right side is raw footage.
You can do whatever way is easier for you.
I'm going to come up here into the top and grab one of the transitions and there are many to pick from. The most commonly used are going to be the top four. From then on over it’s just kind of more goofy stuff.
I'm going to use this one here and I'm going to stick it in between the two. If we play it back looks kind of like that and it could be a little smoother we can work on polishing that a little later but this is kind of roughly looking okay.
It doesn’t have to be perfect yet.
Now I'm going to lasso all four of these items and I'm going to drag it over to the editing side. So I have a rough cut of a movie on this side and then right here still needs a little bit of work.
The next step is to roughly get the video to start shaping up into a movie and get frames that you want to play in the right order. So we're going to start taking this roughly edited video and really just kind of purge it and polish it and make it turn out the way we really want it to.
So basically we're done splitting between editing and raw footage so I'm just going to delete my black frame here. This is actually going to be the end of the movie so this is when you get to use one of these other transitions. "Fade to black" for instance can be done there. So I'm going to watch it one more time from the beginning.
Okay, wait. So this is kind of funny: he's down on the floor and then he's jumps to standing. See? So we need to either bring him down here. Yes, that's better. He still looks like he should be on the floor a little bit longer, but that's okay.
Before we export it I want to kind of just go through some other commonly used editing effects that I did not end up using in this video.
Most of them are found actually up here on the top. This one is the color match so I could have used this in this clip if I wanted the color off of this one and wanted to apply it to this.
This is a stabilizer. You can use this pretty often. Let's say you have a kind of wiggly photo like your tripod got bumped or something, you would "stabilize shaky video" and what it does is it kind of goes through and analyzes the movement and tries to straighten it out a little bit.
And then the volume. So I'm going to leave the volume the way it is but if it was a little too loud or boomy you could do one of two things. You could lower it manually down here so you see can lift this and move it around, or you can do it right up here.
This would be for making things fast or slow motion. Also you can reverse clips like let's say you know Walt Disney's famous video of a girl dropping a bottle of milk and then she gathers it back up. That sort of a thing would be what that you would use for the reverse tool.
Then this one I also use pretty often, the clip filters. If you wanted the film to appear to be a sketch, if you wanted to put a filter on the scene, they have a variety of different ones you could use.
Also the audio, you can do the same thing. You make them echoey or high-pitched. This is another way you can extend clips. Like I was saying earlier you can change it from a 3 second transition. You can also be like, “Oh I need this to be six seconds long.” You can actually manually make it six seconds.
So those are some of the other editing tools and then some other ones that I end up using every now and then is like the Ken Burns effect. This is actually kind of a zooming motion. We're slowly going into his face so sometimes needing just that little bit of a dolly action, you can add it there in the end.
I sometimes use the green screen, that is something that I will cover a little bit in a separate video.
So those are some of the things that you can do in after effects. I'm going to go ahead now and show you through how to export the video. Over here there is a download button. I'm going to do it as an "export the file", and then I'm just going to name this "Heaven's Match Example" because it's not the finished product.
You can also play with some of these if you want the video and the audio to come together this resolution is the best. If you need something to be not so high quality you can pick one of those too. For high quality you can do best or custom.
Best is usually a good option, and then if you want, compress it for faster downloading. Better quality will take longer to do that but in the end it will be better. Then you push next and then it'll ask you where you want it to be located. We'll put it there for now and then same thing as before it'll work here on downloading it into the computer.
Then it will be in your computer. At this point I will just show you where it is. I put it in downloads so it is going to be right there: Heaven's Match Example.
Now part of finishing a video is knowing how to clean up the after you export. What I'm going to do is I am going to copy all of this. I'm going to grab all of it and delete it. I'm now able to now delete this. Just hit "delete media from event", confirm that that is indeed what you want to be doing, and then you can go into your projects and you can click “Heavens Match” which is now empty and delete project.
Now that doesn't necessarily mean that your computer is now free of the project and there's no more of that footage on here. So you would come here and it's actually in your trash at this point. Empty it again. This is kind of important to do that because your computer will get full storage and it can be frustrating because you won't know why. It's because even though you've deleted the project the footage is still stuck on the computer somewhere, so deleting everything and then emptying your trash is the way to solve that.
So that is how to edit a scene using iMovie and stay tuned, I'll show you how to do another scene on Adobe Pro.