Keyframe audio and speed changes

MacWorld UK has 26 iMovie tips that range from beginner to “advanced.” For instance, all this time I thought you had to laboriously option-click to set keyframe points to adjust volume in small sections of a clip. Nope.

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And I thought you had to split clips to apply speed changes. Nope. Set some keyframes and adjust speed – iMovie will “smooth” the speed transition from both sides of the edit.

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Notes on interviewing

Portland media studio Red Stallion short “Maine Makers” video about KGB Glass, who specializes in blowing glass pipes that look like donuts (note “carb” joke on the bag at the end). They’ve written up a series of tips about how to tell a story, almost entirely concerning interviewing and b-roll. Good stuff (link seems to be dead, but I’ve written them to find it).

Their first foray into this genre was the film we saw earlier this year about our own Jared DeSimio.

This kind of maker profile is ripe for parody. Gulp.