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Google doodle March 21, 2019

Back in 2013, I was trying to adjust to the new YouTube and the fact that Google was pushing us all to use their Google+ service. Here we are, six years later and Google+ is being shut down.

iMovie 9
I've been learning to use iMovie 9 (yes, I am 6 years out of date). I also wanted to try Quicktime Player for screen casting. Today when I noticed the Google doodle for March 21, 2019 I decided to use it as practice for making a video (Bach Harmony).

iMovie version 9.0.4

Voiceover
My iMovie project for this video is 627.6 MB on my computer's hard drive, but I exported the video as a 238 MB .mov file for upload to YouTube.

iMovie 9 "event" folders

Jargon. In the jargon used by the iMovie 9 programmers, your existing video clips that you edit and include in a new video are called "events". You cut "clips" out of your events files for inclusion in your newly crafted videos. The videos that you make with iMovie are called your "projects". Gah. 😝

File management
Be careful about where you keep your files while developing an iMovie project. For the "event" library, there is an option for making copies of video clips that are used by iMovie. There seems to be no such system for audio tracks that are added to a project. Shown in the image to the right is what happened when an audio track was moved into a sub-folder of its original folder.

warning

The iMovie software could no longer find the file and a yellow warning icon was displayed on the audio track.