Week 4 - Practical Experience (pt.3)

iMovie
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For my final PE with iMovie I went online and began looking at ways other people have used this platform above and beyond what many of Mac's tutorials (and even Lynda.com) have provided. Basically what I went looking for were unconventional ways to use iMovie to create special effects within the movies themselves. A lot of them referred to iMovie HD which apparently was the iMovie '06 version. Everyone loved all the special effects that could be used and from the tutorials I found I was amazed at what you could do, and surprised as many others seemed to be as well that since the '06 version all those special effects were dropped out of the later versions including the '09 version I have. I also found that you there are numerous sites that offer a free download of the '06 version. I so want to download that version but I am worried that it might screw up what I have on my computer already. I might try to back everything up and then download it. I would love to have all those special effects in HD plus the ease of use in '09. The best of both worlds is always nice to have. So if any of you Mac pros out there read this and know if I can have both on my system without them conflicting let me know.

As for what special effects I found that correspond to iMovie '09 ... not much. The green screen and the picture in picture are the big effects of '09 which are great effects. BUt, compared to what was offered in iMovie HD ... they are not enough. I did find a site where the site creator teaches how to make someone look like they are walking through a wall and also a picture showing live action. For my final one minute movie I will be trying to do the last one I mentioned ... the moving image photo. Wish me luck! I will post it in here after I have made the movie.  I hope it works or I will be late on my last assignment of this ETC class. That would stink .. so let me go get started.