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An exploration into making movies for YouTube as a fun summer project!

NOTE Make sure you have decent hardware. I had an old catalina machine (late 2013) which was frustrating to use.

Why

why not

Inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljAWrpmEFoU&t=1s Tech Talk America iMovie 2020 Full tutorial. 23mins. 1.2m views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6b0Wp9gyE Matts Off Road Recovery

Nomenclature

  • timeline - bottom window
  • scrubbing - going through clips
  • shot - original
  • clip - a shot can be split into clips
  • transitions

iMovie shortcuts

  • spacebar
  • \ - play from beginning
  • r - range
  • x - select entire clip

  • cmx x - cut selected frames

  • i - in point
  • o - out point
  • e - send to end
  • cmd shift m - mute all clips
  • m - mark

  • cmb b - blade

  • l and k - scrub left and right fast
  • arrow - scrub left and right

  • up arrow - beginning of current clip

  • Cmd + - - zoom in and out
  • r - range (to sort out peaking audio levels)

  • option key on keyboard to create anohter copy of a sound/clip

  • m - mark (put on a visual marker) so can get audio to sync to music

  • Cmd + - - zoom in and out
  • r - range (to sort out peaking audio levels)

  • option key on keyboard to create anohter copy of a sound/clip

  • m - mark (put on a visual marker) so can get audio to sync to music

  • Cmd N - create new project (from home screen)
  • Cmd i - import media
  • E - when selected media, it will add to the end of the timeline
  • W - when selected media, and playhead is in a space, will import into middle
  • cmd B - chop
  • delete - delete clip
  • V - voiceover
  • cmd delete - delete clip/project from imovie library
  • ctrl c, option cmd v - copy a filter along with colour grading

Styles of Movie

  • Entertainment eg Matts Off Road Recovery. I’m not going to recover people, nor have a 4wd, nor enjoy welding.
  • Entertainment eg Carwow

  • Entertainment/Education eg LTT

  • Doing along with eg Yoga with Adreine

  • Beginners guiides Learning so can copy eg install pip on mac

  • iMovie Beginners Guide here

Commonalities in Films

Empathetic to the characters (entertainment)

MORR

  • People - Matt is a genuine good person and caring. Team is great.

  • no intro music?
  • 4 seconds video of what is about to happen ie clip of exciting bit
  • talk to camera on what is happening
  • intro to team and weather report
  • outdoor footage, good music.. roadtrip
  • interesting things along the way
  • doing the ‘recovery’…adventure…not quite sure what will happen or break!
  • family / people / sunshine / hills
  • do something nice for others
  • summary

CARWOW

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Joes Tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Qcb5xQ96M

This is good as I picked up on other tips eg increase font size.. but raw content I didn’t trust! It was correct, but I went to the source to double check.

Matthew Berman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxSPx1bfl2M

Installing PrivateGPT. Really interesting, but felt like he was teaching us how to clone from GH.

Tech Talk America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljAWrpmEFoU&t=1s iMovie 2020 FULL TUTORIAL .. was the first search on imovie beginners guide on YT

3 Axis Gimble great as you find out stuff I wasn’t expecting!

He filmed all footage on an iPhone with a gimble.

File Management

iMovie creates a copy and puts it into iMovie Library folder which by default is in \Users\dave\Movies\iMovie Library I seem to have 6GB used already in there.

256GB sd card from gopro is formatted as ExFAT - no file size limits, and good for mac

  • FAT32 4GB limit (old FS). Mac and Win
  • exFAT - no file size. Mac and Win
  • NTFS - no file size. read only Mac.
  • APFS - no file size. need paragon software to read/write on windows

Setting In points and Out points

Montage style video

put shots along with the music

  • m - mark (put on a visual marker) so can get audio to sync to music

Transitions

jump shots ie not transition are most normal transition drag between 2 shots - use when something big is happening. eg cymbal crash in music fade to black between major parts

Music

jump shots ie not transition are most normal transition drag between 2 shots - use when something big is happening. eg cymbal crash in music fade to black between major parts

photos

ken burns effect - panning / zoom imovie preferences

make it small (use rectangle) to decrease size to start and end

titles

use different fonts to make it look like not imovie

place cursor q - add conneted media

editing

stabilisation - set to low eg 12%.. well lit

audio

whilst most people will forgive bad video most will not forgive bad audio

eg hype mic by apogee sounds just fine

voiceover can do

base correction

  • cmd c
  • cmd option v - paste all attributes

export

  • file, share, File Quality should be high and not ``

Music

imovie

import to project media (rather than global iMovie library)

photos

ken burns effect - panning / zoom imovie preferences

make it small (use rectangle) to decrease size to start and end

titles

use different fonts to make it look like not imovie

place cursor q - add conneted media

editing

stabilisation - set to low eg 12%.. well lit

audio

whilst most people will forgive bad video most will not forgive bad audio

eg hype mic by apogee sounds just fine

voiceover can do

base correction

  • cmd c
  • cmd option v - paste all attributes

export

  • file, share, File Quality should be high and not ``