iMovie is pretty accessible with VO on Mac, there are a few good tutorials on
Youtube for the basics, once you get to know the basics it’s repetitive but
simple. If you already use Reaper and it can be used for what you need for
video editting, no need to learn a new environment.
A couple of tips I didn’t catch from the tutorials but picked up somewhere:
In the project timeline using left and right arrows moves one frame at a time,
holding down an arros moves at about real time. Shift plus arrows jumps 10
frames at a time, much quicker.
For anything but the default transition you need to drag and drop, not bad in
iMovie, but command T gives you the default disolve transition, it works for
most things.
I put a transition between every clip whether I want one or not. This happens
automatically on the IOS version. I do this because it’s easier to VO Space on
a transition at the start of a clip than to make sure you’re in the exact right
place in the clip itself. You can always delete the transitions before you save
if you don’t want them.
Vo J does a good job ov moving between the project timeline, the eventas
sidebar and the events browser, this saves a lot of stop interacting and VO
arrow actions.
Here is the video tutorial I started with for imovie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gInthWUriLM&t=132s
There ar a few other basic intro tutorials on Youtube, they each say about the
same thing, how to add clips to your events, how to move clips from your events
browser to your project timeline, split a clip and delete what you don’t want
etc. If you need a quick step by step without the extraneous stuff, feel free
to say what you want to do and I can fire one up.
Ian
On Feb 13, 2021, at 12:14 PM, Tim Burgess <timmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Really appreciate the advice – I already use Reaper for other things, so
that’s an easy decision to make – thanks.
Take care and stay safe.
Tim
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Tim,
I think it should be possible to get this done in iMovie, but personally I
would probably just use Reaper. I don’t know if you have used it before, but
it’s very, very easy to do. Import your video files, do whatever you need to
do as if it were audio, and save it in a supported video format. If you care
about the format and need to convert it after that just use Handbrake.
Hope that helps,
Ignasi
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Hi,
I need to do some very basic video editing, mainly gluing multiple video
clips together to create an overall video to put up on YouTube, but I’m
struggling to reliably navigate and perform actions using iMovie on Catalina.
Can anybody offer any tips and/or point me to any how-tos, please?
Many thanks in advance.
Tim
