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OK, help. I have about 15 minutes of video (taken on an iphone) of me and my BFF, a significant chunk of which is us giggling at each other, or going "wait, should we stop it? let's stop it and try again". What I need is to edit this down into something I can submit to apply for the Amazing Race.
Anyone got suggestions of the easiest/fastest/quickest-learning method to edit this mess? Suggestions on websites/tutorials that will show me how to edit and move around clips?
tommyrot, thanks for posting that. A Vic-20 was our first computer. Spiders of Mars! Kongo Kong!
Ugh. Apparently iMovie is not the answer for me. I thought it would work similar to other apple products and be vaguely intuitive. I feel like it ought to be easy to grab a few seconds here and a few seconds there and clip and drag and drop or something, and that seems to in no way be how iMovie works. ARGH.
Toast is pretty easy, but I don't know what it costs, or how well it works with anything that is not recorded tv.
that seems to in no way be how iMovie works.
Really? That's basically how I'd describe iMovie. There are some tricks to using it better, but if you follow a couple of basic tutorials (even the built-in ones) I think you'll be able to do what you want faster and more easily on that than anything else you're likely to find.
So no one has any camcorder knowledge they can bring to bear on my sister's query?
What's she going to do with the footage?
I think it's for academic archival and reference. Not moviemaking or rebroadcast, but I'll verify. She's moving from audio recordings of her interviews to video.
I guess it depends on whether it records usable sound. It used to be hit or miss with camcorders to get decent sound, but for all I know these flash-based cameras all record well.
I don't know how you can tell that without trying it.
Living in Jamaica you don't get to try before you buy.
I guess--what can you buy for ~$50 that can give her decent footage to analyse body language? So maybe audio isn't the big deal. Tripods are useful too, for that price.