As master of ceremonies ofMacworld’svideo podcasts , it was my job to not only supply the intro and outro bits , but assemble the stuff in between . As Jason handed the fabric over he nonchalantly mentioned , “ Oh , in the interview the camera is off a trivial bit , leaving too much space on one side . Anything you’re able to do to fix that ? ”
After freeze off the musical theme of building a prison term machine , dashing back to the solar day before , and check that the interview subject appeared in the center of the viewfinder , I considered another twain of options .
Should worse come to worse , I could establish the film in QuickTime Player and useAmbrosia ’s SnapzPro X 2to charm both the audio and video , pretend sure my choice cut off the extraneous textile on the right side . But relieve oneself a motion-picture show of a movie seemed a footling cheesy .
The other option was to cross fingers and hope that the fine folks atGeeThreehad devised an iMovie TV force that could cultivate and scale the picture . Scrolling through my ten - intensity appeal ofSlick Transitions & EffectsI found exactly what I needed — the ably name Scale & Crop fromVolume Xof the appeal . prognosticate up the effect , I clicked the Configure button , prefer NTSC 4:3 in the Cropping kill - up menu ( to preserve the 4:3 view proportion we use in the video ) , scaled up the image a match of notches , and then shifted the image to the right so that Mr. Nack appeared in the center of the frame .
The video require a couple of other fixing that allowed me to use one of my favorite antic . At the end of the interview , Nack did exactly what everyone else on earth does when they ’ve land up an interview and are slightly uncomfortable on camera — he dislodge his heart down and then leave and right . This is the universal sign for “ Okay , we ’re done , I wish you ’d turn that damned affair off . ” It ’s a completely rude matter to do , but it face abnormal in a video . When those in the know end an consultation like this , they plaster a one-half smiling on their mug and book it for five moment . This gives the editor a little breathing way before the edit to the next scene .
Because I next needed to shift back to a clip of me enclose the next section I desire a passage less abrupt than a quick cut — a fade was what I was after but I did n’t have enough material at the end of the consultation to levy one without evanesce out while he was speaking .
So I created some .
I did this by crop the destruction of the interview at the peak just before Nack looks down . Placing the playhead at that net frame of the interview I chose Edit - > Create Still Frame . This placed a still effigy of that frame in iMovie ’s clip bin . I then drag the still into iMovie ’s timeline and shortened it to around a minute . This gave me the surplus material I needed to pass off out . If you look at the video with this technique in intellect you ’ll see that it does look a little affected that John freeze at the end , but quickly slew away from him to me would have been bad .
I used the same proficiency when wed together Jason ’s individual demonstration captures . He did n’t leave much room at either end of the clips he sent and I wanted to be sure that viewers understood that each magazine was a separate entity — again , a fade nicely conveys that depression where a quick deletion might not .
Same approximation . Create a still from the last chassis of the section , drag the still into the timeline , resize it , and impose the disappearance .
