Planning for Outreach Video

As part the process of planning for the creation of the outreach video for my internship, I have spent some time researching which audio editing software will be best for editing the film once actual recording has occurred.  This research has been informative and significant for several reasons.  Firstly, in order to proceed with the project, I will need to know which software program will be best suited for my needs.  Secondly, it will be beneficial to have a basic understanding of how to use the software so that the interface is not completely foreign to me when I begin editing the film.

 

After doing some research on the web, consulting both reviews and instruction manuals, I have decided that iMovie will be the best software option to use.  I also considered Final Cut Pro; but, since I have little experience with video editing, I decided that the user friendly nature and simplicity of the program would best help me complete the project efficiently. 

 

Furthermore, iMovie has the capability to include all of the various effects and has all of the different video editing tools that I will need for my project.  First, the software has the capability to insert smooth, professional-quality transitions between various film clips that have been edited together to make one continuous film clip.  Since this video will feature several different "scenes," the ability to add these transitions will be critical.  Furthermore, iMovie also has the ability to add text captions over video and in between video clips.   This capability will be handy since it will be important to add captions providing the name and role of the speaker as well as briefly describing some images of student records that will be shown during the video.  This brings me to the final important capability of iMovie; in the video, I plan on including still images of particularly interesting student records that we already have in our collection during the video.  In these instances, the archivist speaking will be heard, but, instead of seeing the archivist speaking on the screen, the viewer will see the selected image.  iMovie provides the capability to split the audio and video and replace the video with an image in this particular way.