My first digital movie

As the weather was pretty awful during the weekend, I played around with iMovie 4 and actually managed to record and edit my first fully digital movie using just iMovie and the iSight camera (I used to make super-8 movies in the 1980s). Here are two stills from it:

iMovie is pretty slick software. I managed to edit this in a little under two hours with no consultation of any manual or help file. I also played around with a couple of other clips and found it to be pretty intuitive and easy to use.

Unfortunately, it's not at all bug-free. Several times, iMovie went into some kind of infinite loop, causing me to lose unsaved changes (which taught me to hit Command-S frequently). Also, the title previews do not at all look like the finished titles, and the limitation to two lines and 60 seconds per title is somewhat ridiculous. Now that they're charging for the software, it needs some major tune-ups.

Still, I'm quite amazed at how easy it is to use. I suppose more films will follow. Maybe I'll even post one of them on this weblog. Eventually.