PE1 - iMovie

Today I made a new friend, her name is Lynda.  This site's training videos are stellar.  A special thanks to Garrick Chow, who escorts you through this series. He walks you through step by step, showing you all the basics and then digging further into the tools capabilities.  This is the first of three posts I will make.  The entire training is over three hours long, so i am breaking it down into three sections.

I just completed the first four sections of the tutorial.  These sections covered importing, interface navigation, organizing clips and an overview of the program.  Most of the content in sections 1 - 3 were review, but section four on organizing clips was interesting.  I do not see myself necessarily using this part of iMovie(seems time consuming), but I do understand why one might. iMovie lets you rate clips, for easy deletion or use, spending if you rate it good or bad.  It also lets you tag clips with keywords.  If you were creating a movie on the soccer team, then you could search for clips that were tagged for easy searching.  This could eliminate long navigation times through all of your clips, especially one you have used the program a lot.  As you can see in the screenshot below, the different tags show up as different colors on your clips.

ORANGE - tells you that this clip has been used.

GREEN - tells you that you have marked the clip as a favorite, or good.

RED - tells you that you are not interested in this footage and that you may delete this clip.

BLUE - Tells is that there is a tag on this clip.

PURPLE - Tells you that there are people in these shots.

 I am excited to continue my journey with learning the ins and outs of iMovie through Lynda.com.