Getting started with iMovie

[Ambrosia7177]

A few months ago I asked about what it would take to create some videos for YouTube.

The advice here was to start with iMovie.

To get my head back into things, how hard would it be to do the following...

a.) Edit out parts of a raw movie from my iPhone
b.) Create an Intro slide and Credits slide
c.) Add slides in the middle of the video containing things like Text, Graphs, Infographics
d.) Edit the audio from my iPhone (e.g. edit out Um's and Ur's, or maybe background car traffic)
e.) Add a "music bed" - I think it's called
f.) Possible add transitions

Could I learn how to do those things over the next couple of days? Maybe in a week? Or would it take months?

Where is the best place to learn how to do those things? YouTube? Some tutorials online? Paper book? Other?


My end goal is to take interviews with people on the street, clean things up a bit, and maybe add some things to make it look like a professional movie/presentation for a YouTube Channel that I am trying to build.

Thanks.

 

[reubs]

Here are my thoughts:

All of this is, I think, theoretically possible on an iPhone, but it might be kind of challenging with the small amount of screen real estate available to you. If you can get to a Mac (or even an iPad), that would make it all a lot easier.

What I've done for simply title cards and closing credits is make some keynote slides, export them as .tiff, and then import them as media to add to my project.

I watched some of these videos when I was getting started (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUyUBvmOh4JGVmVIigbYG7A), and while mine are still very basic, you should be fine if you take some time over the next few days and don't put it off until the last minute if you've got a deadline.

 

[Dave Braine]

To get my head back into things, how hard would it be to do the following...

a.) Edit out parts of a raw movie from my iPhone
b.) Create an Intro slide and Credits slide
c.) Add slides in the middle of the video containing things like Text, Graphs, Infographics
d.) Edit the audio from my iPhone (e.g. edit out Um's and Ur's, or maybe background car traffic)
e.) Add a "music bed" - I think it's called
f.) Possible add transitions

Assuming that you want to do this on your Mac, rather than your iPhone(I know nothing about iMovie on an iPhone), all of those are easy.

With d). it depends what you want to do. Simply muting the ups and errs and traffic noise is simple enough. If you want to remove traffic noise and leave other audio in, you can't do that. All the audio is on a single track.

 

[Ambrosia7177]

Assuming that you want to do this on your Mac, rather than your iPhone(I know nothing about iMovie on an iPhone), all of those are easy.

With d). it depends what you want to do. Simply muting the ups and errs and traffic noise is simple enough. If you want to remove traffic noise and leave other audio in, you can't do that. All the audio is on a single track.

What are the best sources to learn from?

Should I just look on YouTube, or can your ecommend some comprehensive online tutorials or paper books?

 

[Dave Braine]

This pretty much covers everything that you listed:

Apart from that, take your pick from all the others listed.

 

[Ambrosia7177]

This pretty much covers everything that you listed:

Apart from that, take your pick from all the others listed.

Hi @Dave Braine,

Just got back from a weeklong video making trip so I now have LOTS of footage.

Thanks for the link. I found a pretty good video on YouTube last night, and will check out your suggestion as soon as I get dressed on this lazy Sunday morning!