The Editor's Edition - Uncut!

I've now officially finished editing our two minute opening sequence, 'Undisclosed Desires', and what a jouney it has been!
I had the responsibility of editing our opening sequence and I believe overall it has gone well. I used the program, imovies HD, which is an apple software on the iMac's and I found it was completely different to Windows Movie Maker. The sheer professionalism of imovies HD grabbed me by surprise as I had used it during our preliminary task but had not taken in the full scale of the program; this time I could.
I found that when using imovies HD, I noticed it had many different features and tools such as:

• Sound Effects (SFX)
• Video Effects (VFX)
• Transitions
• Sound Volume/Pitch settings
• Movie Timeline
• Microphone capability

All these play a key role in making a film as you need to use transitions between shots to keep the film flowing and then the likes of the movie timeline helps you to quickly navigate through your own film with no hassle. This is perfect piece of software that once you know how to get to grips with it; its easy and enjoyable to work with. However, there was one problem that I encounted when first trying to edit - the iMac's that are in place had been updated and iMovies HD had disappeared and was no-where to be seen! We contacted our media course teacher and she seemed puzzled by this too but luckily enough she had a iBook G4 that we could use which had iMovies HD installed on the Operating system (OS) so I have used that instead without any further problems. This has taught me, that even though you have used a certain piece of software before (in this case: iMovies HD) it does not necessarily mean it will still be easy to find and use.

This now concludes the main editing side of our opening sequence and leaves me open to either enhance and add more detail to our film or do extra research which I am sure you will be seeing later on my blog.