Road Bump

Today’s failure blog is about the video. I failed at iMovie. I just could not figure out! And Google did not help. The program kept doing the weirdest things. I was going to try to make almost like a slideshow of different pictures, like a trailer but of stills instead of seconds-long video clips. But it would do strange things like replay the same picture in a row instead of moving to the next one; so it would show the first picture twice, then the third then the fourth. I only got to four pictures by this point. There were a lot of little issues like this and weird changes and inconsistencies that the program was doing to my pictures. I don’t know if it was the photos I chose or what, but I could not fix it so that it would run smoothly or even the same from one time to another. And one time it got stuck! I couldn't get out of iMovie, it would not force quit or shut down. It was terrifying! But eventually I guess I hit force quit enough times for it to do it and not give me an error message telling me it could not quit. So I think I might just shoot my own video and put it into iMovie in one swoop instead of trying to make a fancy PowerPoint of images I add in one by one. Either way will take more time than I have, but at least I know how to point and shoot a camera. Then we’ll see if I can’t get it to work in iMovie! If not, I will look into another program like Camtasia to see if that works better. I might also see if there is a photo slideshow program and instead of having video one. This is all just brainstorming and the beginnings of experimentation right now. So far the video programs have been much harder than I expected. I expected it to be easy like PowerPoint, but it was not (at least for me). But we’ll see how this goes and you can tune back in this weekend to see how it turned out!