Foundational Skills: Video: Projects: Editing

  • How do I trim and sequence video clips to create a movie?

  • How do I export and publish the movie?

What am I making?

  • Use iMovie or WeVideo or Runway to upload your clips, trim them, and sequence (order) them, then export or upload the finished movie to your es-cat.org YouTube account or Blogger.

  • A web page (example) on your Google Site titled "Video Editing" with your video movie embedded from YouTube

How do I make it?

  1. Editing principles are helpful to know and practice, Walter Murch's are translated here

  2. Video tutorial: Editing with iMovie (transferring from phone, all the way to exporting)

  3. Video tutorial: Editing with WeVideo

  4. Video tutorial: Editing with Runway (very basic, but trying out their auto-Green Screen / character mask)

  5. Video tutorial: Publishing a Vimeo Video on a Google Site Page

  6. Video tutorial: Publishing a YouTube Video on a Google Site Page

Steps

  1. Go to iMovie or go to WeVideo or go to Runway, sign up using your es-cat.org Google account (this allows collaboration with classmates in the future.)

  2. Upload your clips and trim them.

  3. Put trimmed clips in the sequence in the order you want.

  4. Test watch the movie. Adjust clip lengths to get the pacing right.

  5. Check the sound on each clip. Adjust it up or down or silence it completely.

    • add re-recorded dialog or sound effects or music as desired

  6. You may add titles or transitions... careful with transitions, they aren't necessary and can be distracting

  7. When it looks good (preview it) click Finish, then Export the movie to a .mov or .mp4 file

  8. Then sign in to Vimeo and upload your movie file, then get the Embed code for it.

  9. Make a new (or use your old) Google Site page called "Video Editing"

  10. Add the Title of your movie

  11. Insert the Vimeo video with its embed code or YouTube video using the address from your movie on your YouTube account.

  12. Write about what you learned about video editing from this assignment...

  13. Publish, click the chain-link icon, get the Link to your page, Copy that link, turn that in in Google Classroom

Career Connections

  • Video is used to tell all kinds of stories. Editing gives you control over the delivery of the story. Master it!

Resources