How-To: Create a video listing of a fun endeavor within the laziest feasible approach - 9 to 5 Mac

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-2.26 How-To: Create a video checklist of a enjoyable exercise in the laziest viable way

Ben Lovejoy

- four hours ago

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i admire to believe I'm pretty easy with a digicam, but am basically an newbie when it involves video. unlike one of the vital proficient videographers we've here on the team, my conception of video enhancing is to throw a bunch of clips into iMovie, add pass-dissolves between them, drop in a music track and contact it respectable.

but even that degree of video enhancing can also be fantastically time-ingesting, which creates something of a catch 22 situation. I get pleasure from having a video record of things like enjoyable bike rides, however don't are looking to spend hours developing them. So for a group trip on the weekend, i attempted a special approach that took hardly ever any time and seemed to work rather well …

I'm the usage of biking as my example right here, but I suppose the approach can be equally legitimate for most enjoyable activities – snowboarding, hiking, working, you identify it.

My general approach to biking movies was counseled by a retired BBC producer friend, who gave me two suggestions. First, that less is greater: the common clip should still be simply a few seconds in length. 2d, that range in digicam perspective is a great way to add interest.

So, I'd ought to bear in mind to turn on the camera for quick clips at intervals right through the experience, and also film from different angles, together with getting off the bike to steadiness the digicam in random hedges etc. The outcomes is pleasing, but it does take lots of work.

happily, the pal I roped into accompanying me on a few cycling holidays is a fellow geek, so he didn't intellect me spending chunks of each night with my head in my MacBook Air, but it's now not something I are looking to do when I'm enjoyable at home with my companion.

So closing weekend i attempted anything distinctive. I just left the digital camera on for the total trip (other than skipping some boring leading-street sections) after which used iMovie's fast-ahead function to velocity it up 20 instances.

The outcomes is a enjoyable video that captures the total journey with very little effort.

here's a way to do it …

In iMovie, import the video clip or clips. In my case, it became seven clips. spotlight them all and drag them into the video timeline. in the timeline, highlight the entire video and within the adjust menu opt for quickly ahead and then 20x.

A rabbit icon will appear on each clip to indicate that it's now a quick-ahead clip. I additionally brought a couple of go-dissolves the place it turned into an abrupt trade of scene.

next, I highlighted the entire clips in the video, did a modify > Detach Audio after which highlighted the audio tracks and deleted them. I changed the audio with a tune music from my iTunes library.

I have a really essential approach to opting for the tune: seem to be at the length of the video, then order my tracks by using length and locate one of the appropriate length …

I added a bunch picture on the end, and that's it – job done! The entire factor took round 20 minutes of exact work, plus the rendering.

The quick-forward rendering is fairly intensive work on your Mac, so don't be anxious if the preview in iMovie suggests jerky effects – the last effect could be best.

if in case you have any video assistance of your own, do share them within the feedback.