Imovie

 I have been working a lot with iMovie lately. I had to write and film a book commercial. I love using IMovie, but I have encountered many problems. I hope that next time I will be able to avoid these problems.

1. IMovie video segments can only be 0.3 seconds short.
I know that does not seem like a big problem, but when you want to achieve a special effect then this gets in your way.

2. IMovie does not have a wide selection of audio.
The background music that IMovie does have it great, but there is not a wide variety. IMovie allows you to use music that you have downloaded as a background, but complications occur when you do not have downloaded music. It would be much easier if IMovie had more of a selection.
Of course, this problem can be solved by downloading your own music, or creating your own interesting sounds using the different features that IMovie comes with.

3. IMovie does not allow me to put the background music where I want it.
This problem may just occur because of my ignorance, but as far as I know, background music has to start at the beginning. It makes sense to have background music throughout the whole length of the movie, but what if I want it in just a portion of the film. No matter how hard I tried, I could not get the music to just play in the areas that I wanted it to. There is a solution, but it takes a while.
First, you have to add the theme music, repetitively until it covers the area that needs to be covered. Then every time you want a transition in the music- from on to off, or off to on- split the audio. You will then have multiple segments of audio running throughout the movie. Then go and mute the audio in the places that you do not want audio. That is the only solution that I have found.

Although I discovered different problems while making this video, I also discovered new things that I can do with IMovie.

1. You can separate the audio from the video.
While I knew this already, I discovered what this actually means. It means that I can take the audio from any video in camera roll, and place it as the background music, the audio for another video, or simply just delete it. This takes my filmmaking to a whole new level.

2. You can speed up audio.
This has helped me so much. While videos from camera roll can only be slowed down, audio can be sped up as well as slowed down. That means that you can take a song from the selection of theme songs in IMovie and change it to a completely different sounding song. You can also do the same thing with sound effects. Using the many different features of audio speed on IMovie, you can create your own selection of sounds.








I am still discovering all the uses for IMovie, but this week, I was able to help a third and fourth grade class discover IMovie for themselves. So hopefully this helps you to discover iMovie.