We are going to deal with one of the fundamental parts, the editing of everything recorded so that our video has a truly professional appearance.
9.1 – Digital video concepts and resource banks
We are almost at the end of our course and we are going to deal with one of the fundamental parts, editing everything recorded to discard what we do not like, rearrange what we want to appear, and add rhythm, corrections and effects so that our video has a truly professional look
If in chapter 4 we talked about audiovisual language, before tackling editing it is convenient to take into account certain technical aspects related to digital video, because they will be present both in the cameras you use and in the settings of the editing itself, this is: resolution, format, framerate, and compression (codecs).
In addition, we will discuss the whole matter of the licenses for the use of material downloaded from the Internet and we will list a few banks of images, videos and sounds, many of them free, which will be great for you to enrich your videos.
9.2 – iMovie for Mac. Overview
iMovie for Mac is a free but very powerful program to take our first steps in video editing. We will do a fairly exhaustive review of its interface to know all its possibilities.
9.3 Handy Edition and Additional Resources
We’ll now start creating a project from scratch, and while we’ll be using iMovie, we’ll focus more on editing concepts so we can apply them across any app or platform.
We have divided this video into 6 parts to make it easier for you to access each of them in the future.
9.3.1 – Import, clip trimming and precision tool
In this first part, we will import the clips and create a timeline with the resolution and format that we need.
Then we will see the various options for adding the selected sections of each clip to the timeline and the adjustments of the In and Out points in them, as well as the use of the precision tools that iMovie provides us to further fine-tune our image. edition.
9.3.2 – Framing changes, transitions and inserts
We will now begin to get some of those visual resources that we have been talking about throughout the course. First of all we will learn to reframe a clip to give the impression that we have moved our camera.
We will also see how to apply transitions and which ones remain and which do NOT look good, and we will see how to add additional images that serve as inserts to energize our videos or ‘cover’ things that we do not want to appear.
9.3.3 – Subtitles, titles and headers
Another way to give dynamism or to ‘cover’ cuts is the use of subtitles or titles, and we will see how to do them in iMovie.
We will also take advantage of material downloaded from an image bank and the channel’s logo along with a background sound to create a header, a presentation of our channel.
9.3.4 – Color correction and export
We’re almost done with our video, but we’re going to color match between the various clips and make any final adjustments before we’re done.
Later we will see the steps to export the entire video and the compression options.
9.3.5 – Synchronization of several sources
As we saw in chapter 8, if we record with several video or audio sources at the same time, it is necessary to synchronize everything so that it is well balanced, so we will see how to do it through the waveforms of all the audio involved, and in different scenarios. .
9.3.6 – Advanced Reframing and Speed Changes
Finally, we will see how to apply a crop in iMovie with another method different from the one learned before, useful when our video is one layer above.
We will also see a practical case of speed change, speeding up a process video.
Despite all that we have learned in this very long chapter, there are still many techniques and tricks both for iMovie and for editing in general, which we will be able to cover, if you are interested, in future courses on . You know where to ask us! 😉
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