iPhone Movie Making Essentials Part3: Editing with iMovie
The process of editing is taking the best bits of each shot and assembling then together in the best order to tell the story. This is not often in the order that they were shot, so re-ordering the shots on the timeline is essential.
This process is very simple open up iMovie and click on
and you have a choice
select Movie. All the clips you've shot come up,
click one and it highlight in yellow and you have three choices,
the downward facing arrow
inserts the clip in the time line.
The right facing arrow plays the whole clip,
clicking on the three dots brings up another selection
of five choices
the three dots takes you back
the waveform symbol inserts the clip sound only
the two rectangles insets the clip picture only
the small rectangle and the large rectangle inserts the picture in picture and
the two upright rectangles inserts the picture side by side
This range of tools give you great creative freedom and choices over editing. The sound from a shot can be laid under a sequence of other shots or still pictures by using the waveform symbol.
When you interview someone listen carefully to what that person says and think about extra shots or cutaways of what they are talking about. These can then be dropped in seamlessly as they speak by using the double rectangle tool, the sound is muted and only the sound from the interview is heard.
These are some of the tools available in professional editing packages and is a very powerful communications tool.