Editing with iMovie for iOS

Sarah Fernandezlopez says:

So the purpose of this video is to illustrate how you can edit your video to only include what you want it to include. So for example, when I tape a small space, I set up the camera and let it record for the whole session. That might be 5 minutes of video footage that includes all the exercises, but also includes all my rewards, and re-setting up the dog, and leading out, and setting bars. If I remove all of that “dead time”, the original 5 mins becomes less than 1 minute.

So the purpose of “cutting” is to take your one long clip and split it into smaller clips of stuff you want to keep and stuff you want to delete. So the workflow looks something like this.

1) scroll forward through the initial dead time till you get to the start of the first repetition.
2) Split the clip at that point so you now have two clips. One clip of the initial deadtime, and one clip of the rest of the session.
3) Tap on the “deadtime” clip and delete it. Now your clip starts with your first repetition.
4) Scroll forward to the end of your first repetition.
5) Split the clip at that point so you now have two clips, one clip of the initial repetition, and one clip of the rest of the session.
6) Scroll forward to the start of the next repetition.
7) Split the clip at that point so you now have three clips, the first is the initial repetition (which you want to keep), the second is the dead time between repetitions (which you want to delete) and the third is the rest of the session.
8) Tap on the “deadtime” clip and delete it.
9) Repeat

So that is the whole point of cutting or splitting.

When I mention splicing, what I mean is combining several videos. Maybe you worked on a sequence over several sessions, you would want to combine those videos into one for submission. Or some people WILL start and stop the video (maybe you have a family member taping you) for every repetition, and now you have five 8 second clips to submit. You would want to combine them into one video rather than uploading and naming 5 different tiny clips.

Zooming is used less often, it is useful when the initial video is zoomed out too much.

So those are the use cases for the cutting, splicing, and zooming.

I can do a zoom call with you where you share your screen and I talk you through it if you like.

And also, at the end of the day, it’s more important for you to submit video than for your video to be perfectly edited. So don’t let editing hold you back, send video however you can!