The recording process in Step 2 creates a bunch of raw digital MPEG (.mpg) video files. These files may be parts of the same film reel, or have long blank sections where you fiddled around with the projector without stopping the recording, or the film itself has blank parts or sections where sunlight washed away the visible parts, etc. Hence, there is a need to cut out some parts, re-join other sections, and basically edit the films.
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| iMovie Software App |
On the MAC computer, I used Apple’s iMovie version 9 as a video editor.
The iMovie app has two sections: the bottom section are the individual video files or "events" which represent all of the raw video files. These “events” files take on whatever file name used during the initial camcorder video recording process.
The upper section of the iMovies app is where the the final video “projects” are created. Events are selected and "dragged" into the project section where the files can be cut, split, sections deleted, re-arranged, etc. In some cases I combined several video clips from different "event" films in order to create one master video project of a common topic, such as combining all of the Rose Parade films into one single "Parade" video file.
The Projects section also allow the addition of Title screens and other transition graphics. For example, graphic overlay texts are sometimes added on top of the video to explain what the film is representing, or when a change in scenes happens.
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| iMovie Title Side |
So using this editing application and process, all of the raw video files are edited and merged into multiple master projects.
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