Mac iMovie Event to YouTube Primer Tutorial
YouTube is a huge repository of people’s creative powers with video, movies, advertisements, songs, presentations, tutorials and any other audio-visual idea imaginable with moving pictures and sound, or even not-much-moving pictures. A Mac laptop is well positioned “out of the box” with the iMovie desktop application to create content that can be uploaded to YouTube.
With Mac OS X Mavericks, and maybe before, good old iMovie 9.0 (a fine version) got upgraded to iMovie 10.0.4 (more or less) and quite a few things changed … by the way, any iMovie tutorials before this one at this blog would have been using iMovie 9.0
With desktop application work, personally, love it when there is a theme and continuity between applications under the auspices of that operating system. Windows is great at this, and Mac OS X is good too. With iPhoto and iMovie under Mac OS X there is a shared concept of “event” … to me being “a day’s work” (it gets given as a default name, the date of the day it is created). This fits into the concepts of modern digital peripherals like digital cameras, where if you set the correct date on the machine this will be recognised by like-minded laptop (or tablet) software such as iPhoto, and here, today, with iMovie, where we create an event in iMovie-land and drop (or import) into this event “directory” several images in a sequence that was used with the Emailing Image via Google Drawing Primer Tutorial as shown below.
Today, we convert that “event” into a YouTube video clip via an iMovie movie, after several false starts … my apologies for my iMovie 10.0.4 gobsmacked behaviour.
Previous relevant Emailing Image via Google Drawing Primer Tutorial is shown below.
Emailing Image via Google Drawing Primer Tutorial
Having seen computer desktop work being overtaken by work taking place on the web, in the iCloud, in Google Docs, in dropboxes, or hosted data places, it should come as no surprise that Image work using the Image via Google Drawing format should be able to be conducted by email (for example, Gmail) without “consciously” (ie. there are probably temporary files you can find) touching your laptop’s hard drive. Even so, this still strikes me as pretty good in that you can stay within your email application and do a whole lot of work related tasks without leaving that environment. Probably it was the use of tablets that pushed the need for such functionality, as tablets are not so keen on local storage of files.
I like to think of this as doing things in “mid-air” (or in the “ether”), but (this) is not purely correct, because, as you would expect, to restore the data before your eyes during your email session, the data more than likely came from a file on a web server, cloud server, dropbox, database or “centralized storage that is not your hard disk” … should we say. It is like “mid-air” though, in the sense that your work can hover around you as you travel, and you don’t have to use your laptop or tablet or phone to get at it at the other end (Gmail usage only relies on web browser access to the Internet).
Call me naive, but I can’t help but think that that is cute! Call me backward, perhaps, because it is probably par for the course for many people today who “Sync” their devices on a regular basis (often tablets and mobile phones).
As with many good things, the progress can come at the expense of your control over data, because you hand it over, really, trusting this data is not used illegitimately, or without permission, or without your complicity or knowledge. All this, though, is not much to do with this tutorial. In this tutorial we show you a Image, created perhaps on a laptop’s hard disk, maybe a long time ago, but not needing to land back at that laptop’s hard disk, to be useful, anytime soon. So what sort of data suits such arrangements? Most obviously, an Image collaboration where several minds meet, in one of the classic image formats.
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