Okay, I'll be straight with you. While this assignment was difficult-sounding on paper, I actually had a lot of fun with it. I own a FlipCam, which if you're a journalist, you should really own anyway, but I used that instead of the iChat function on our computers in my office or my Skype webcam at home. As soon as I finished my video, I opened iMovie on the Macs in my office and proceeded to just start playing around. I was able to cut the very beginning and end of my starting and stopping the recording so it looked more natural. I placed the full one and a half minute video in the editing section and jumped on Flickr, where I got the first three photos in my video. I took screenshots of those, as well as the last picture which is off ESPN.com, and dragged them onto the editing section of iMovie, where it asked if I wanted to put it in as a cutaway where it would show the photo, but I would still be talking over top of it. I looked thorough the video again to make sure it worked then exported it to Youtube. The process took about two hours.
Of course, there were some roadblocks and speed bumps, before finding the cutaway feature, I just tried dropping the photos wherever, but that would take the video and audio up to the photo, then stop to show the photo, then come back to me speaking where it left off. That was tricky, so I consulted the help option and was able to figure out how to do cutaways. Because there were four photos, when I was running through the video, it would show the first photo, then freeze on me when trying to show another. I deleted the last two photos for memory's sake, then uploaded it and it ran through with no problem. I went back and put the two photos back in and uploaded it again and it ran perfectly.
I loved the assignment actually, it was a lot of fun. I got to mess around with something I have never had to do before and I feel like I could do this time and time again even after this class is over.
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