This was probably the most difficult of the three videos that were produced for this course. The video itself was essentially the same as the others, cut, paste, edit, add sound, adjust, add title, add credits, and done. What was difficult was the back and forth between three members from three different cities all trying to edit the same content. Downloading the video and reloading after each edit became so time consuming that we decided to post it to a team wiki page and one team member edit the video each time suggestions were made. After each day, a new page was created so we knew which edit to edit! Phew! In the end, the final product was pretty good considering we have never met, are in three locations, Mac and PC users combined, and we did it all via the internet. Google docs and team wikis were the key. Everyone had an input and the video was widget imbedded into the page. The ability to subscribe to the RSS feed made it easy to know when new edits were posted and when another team member made comments or edits as well. All in all, I learned a lot from the project and feel a lot more technologically advanced for having done it. It would have been useful to work on the same systems and programs so downloading would have been easier, but I learned more from converting files and downloading widgets than I would if I hadn't have had to do it.

This video was a lot harder to create than the first. With actual film clips there is a lot more that has to be done. You have to make sure the format is readable by your editor. There are a lot of video clips that are not readable by imovie. This may be the downside of using it to edit downloaded files. Posting and publishing them was easy. Once they were downloaded it was just clicking and pasting. The hard part is downloading them in a viewable format. I would say that anyone could do this if they wanted. It was easy to find clips, and super easy to put them together. With iTunes plus, you can use existing music that you purchsed as much as you want and in whole. That made adding the audio easy. I owned the song Atomic, so I just had to click and drag it into the video. All in all, my seven year old can do it. Of course, she is GT. :)

Week 1: First video

My first experience using imovie was pretty simple. I had no problems with importing picture, editing the time, or adding the music. Only the voice component was difficult. The editing tool is simple and my mic is built in, but I was suffering from pharyngitis this week and couldn't talk loud enough. It sounded like whispering. This was really distracting from the video and I could not make it sound better. I decided the video would be a lot better without the annoying whispers in the background. Once removed, the video turned out pretty successful. I will probably make a ton more videos like these to publish and share with family now that I know how. It's a lot better that stuffy old photo albums and scrap booking. Cheaper too!

See for yourself: