It was to make a video or take one outside of the rain. Last week, this would not have been a problem, but this weekend we had record high temperatures and nary a drop of rain. So I went the power point route, using iMovie to stitch it all together and post it on Facebook.
First I went searching on the internet for my images. I had envisioned the movie in my head last week while driving around. I often find my creative inspiration when in the car, and last week had me on the road for hours.
I found some rain backgrounds and alternated 3-4 different versions of the rain in a powerpoint. I found the image of a black and white umbrella and added a sequence of 15 images, slightly rotated across the screen, in Power Point.
I put the slides in sequences back and forth and added some title info at the end. That was the easy part.
Then, I was struggling with how to animate it for viewers to see. I thought if I made it a PDF that would work but it did not. And, I couldn't get the transitions short enough to make the umbrella smooth, so I made all 68 slides into .jpg files and dragged them into iMovie.
Once in iMovie, I was able to specify the slide lengths (much shorter - 0.1 sec/slide) and then exported it to Facebook. I tried to put it on You Tube, but there is a problem making that happen wiht the account settings since Google took over...so here is the Facebook link.
Great animation! Oh to be so computer literate.... Really cool!
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