Back on Track!

I have finally come up with a workable solution, which is great! Basically, I will create the basis of my video in Windows Movie Maker, then import into iMovie where I can add some more effects, and finalize the video so the audio and video are in sync. It seems to be working fine, and by now I have gotten the jist of how iMovie works. Currently I am wrapping up the work on Windows Movie Maker, and I plan to finish the video very soon. I look forwards to see what my hard work has earned me!

Video Editing Issues

So after editing and putting together about one half of my video, I decided to play it see how it turned out. Well unfortunately, there was one huge issue. The audio and video weren't synced, and there were some other small here and there issues. I tried to fix it, and I did my part researching about it online. However, no luck there. I decided to lay out my options- what were they?

1. Troubleshoot and attempt to fix my Windows Live Movie

Advantage: I wouldn't have to redo half of my video
Disadvantage: It would probably waste a lot of time, time which I could spend editing

2. Move on and restart my video, using iMovie

Advantages: I can start editing my video right away, more options and features
Disadvantages: I have never used iMovie before, there is the possibility that I run into issues again, I can only work on it at school so I have limited time.

In the end, after some hard decision making, I have decided to use iMovie. There's much more flexibility editing-wise, and I can easily learn how to use it from my friends and online. I can make time to edit my video during lunchtimes and afterschool, along with class Genius Hour periods. I really hope this works out, because there's no turning back. Video making is much harder than I had expected!

One week later ...

One busy week later, I'm finally done editing ALL of my pictures- that's over 400 good shots, after removing quite a few blurry, choppy, and just plain bad pictures from my files. I've decided not to edit or add effects to the video clips, because once I assemble the video they will be played around with quite a bit anyways.

I decided to keep it simple and not move around the pictures from my IPod Touch to computer and vice versa until necessary. As mentioned in my previous post, I edited the pictures on my IPod Touch using an wonderful free app called InstaText. For all the photos I took using my actual camera, I uploaded them to my Google Drive and edited them using a free internet website called Photogramio.

After editing my pictures, I can honestly say that I took about half the time to edit double the amount of pictures on my IPod Touch. It was very efficient, and I only ran into one problem. After editing some pictures, I realized that some of my pictures had a little border, which I didn't like because it wasn't consistent throughout all my pictures. I re-edited all of those pictures, but it took me less than an hour- definitely worth it.

On the other hand, I also had about 100 pictures on the computer which I had to edit as well. This was not as fun and easy as editing on my IPod Touch. There were so many windows open on my screen, the pictures took forever to load, and I had to re-save them onto my Google Drive; it was all a big mess. After spending a good two days just organizing my pictures, I am proud to say that I am finally ready to create my video!