 Hey guys! So today I thought it might be helpful for some of you to see how I do my edits for my self-tape auditions on iMovie. I've used iMovie for many years. Recently I transitioned to using Premiere Pro because I have a YouTube channel and I like to explore different ways of editing and filming and things like that. But I did use iMovie, which I got for free with my computer for the longest time and it's really easy and I wanted to show you what I do. If you're a beginner actor, exactly all of the shortcuts to do what I cut, how I label these files, do I put my name on the screen, how I do the transitions, all of that. For this one in particular, we're going to be editing a commercial audition that I recently got from SF Casting and it was a self-tape audition request from SF Casting and we're going to edit that on iMovie and I'm going to show you every single step. I'm going to do my best to not edit too much out so you can see everything and put time stamps in the description so you can see exactly what I do if you're interested in, you know, the end. How do I transition out of the video? Do I do an abrupt ending? I think my self-tape auditions are pretty good as far as, you know, how professional they look and I don't think it's very hard at all. I use iMovie, nothing very fancy. I use some of their transitions, some of their title cards, so let me show you. So let's pretend you never even have got open to iMovie so what you can do is actually search it a few different ways. If you want to go to the top right and get the magnifying glass here, you could search iMovie and then it should load and if you haven't ever opened it, it's going to say welcome to iMovie. You just can click ahead or look at those videos or description of the program and it looks like mine is loading right here but as soon as it loads, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to teach you how to import some of the footage, import your audition in order to edit it. You can save it onto your desktop if you want to have a really easy, quick way to find it. I like to have it on my folder because I have a drive, I have an SSD drive. I have an SSD so I have my folder in there but I highly suggest making a folder on your desktop or on some kind of drive where it says auditions so that you always know where your auditions go to. You don't want to randomly save your audition and then you can't find it and you'll have to download it again but I suggest keeping your auditions organized and then you can also refer to them in the future or reuse some portion of it if you can like this late if you're wearing the same outfit but make sure you have a folder on your desktop or somewhere that you can put all of your auditions in and refer to in the future and this shouldn't take too long. Definitely when you first start editing your auditions, it's going to take a while for you to get used to but after a bit if you are confident with the takes that you have and you know which ones you want to select it shouldn't take you more than like 30 minutes to edit it but that's after you've had plenty of practice. When I first started recording my own auditions and editing my own auditions I took a long time but now I know roughly which shot I liked while I was filming it and I know which ones I want. So this is the basically the home page of iMovie. I'm going to click on the plus and then click on movie because this just allows you to create whatever you want no templates or anything. So to import your media this time I'm just going to click on this one to show you if you had it on your desktop of course you can select desktop and then grab it but mine is on this drive so I'm going to find it here. Okay so I found my footage I'm just going to control click on the first of the videos control click on the last one and that one will select all of them and then I'm going to put import all and then all of this footage it might have a circle that's basically like it's loading and you can start editing. Sometimes if you start editing before that it's complete before it's completely uploaded on to iMovie it'll be a little bit slow but don't worry sometimes when you do things on iMovie it's just a bit slow. So I have my general footage on here I can tell on here that this is my slate because like I said it's a commercial audition and they asked me to do my slate a full body shot everything that you're seeing on here they asked me they specifically told me to do these shots they wanted a close-up a wide one even closer a full body shot everything you're seeing on here but today of course we're going to focus on editing I have other videos on how to do the actual auditions so I'm going to start by selecting my which slate that I want and let's see okay this is the this is a shot of my slate that I took so I'm just going to take that and then I'm going to click right here and if you do command B that's going to snip it right there so command B I'm hovering my mouse exactly where I want it to be cut command B and then you see how it's so highlighted yellow you can just press delete and that'll delete that and now I'm going to look at my slate and select the pieces that I do want and then I can cut it and put my full body shot. Hi my name is Belchika Rodriguez I'm in San Jose 5-10 and I'm auditioning for Mikayla. Okay I don't love that I didn't I wasn't able to see my ear on the first one I really thought you could but you couldn't it's okay next time we'll do better so again I'm going to click on this clip and then command B to cut it I know this is what I don't want and then I need a full body shot because they wanted a couple of seconds of a full body shot and I like to move a little bit during this full body shot just because it looks less like a picture in an actual video so I'm going to select a piece when or I'm not moving too much but you can see my entire body. Again I selected the clip and then I command B okay I think that's good enough so command B again and then I'm going to delete the rest of this because I don't need any of this and then if you wanted to see your clips further or closer like you want to zoom in you can use this up here okay so this is going to be my slate let me see if it's too long okay this one I think is a little bit too long another way that you can cut your clips or just shorten it is if you go towards the end and just hover above you'll get two arrows you can just shorten it like this and I think I'm going to make this it's almost three seconds I think that's good enough yeah okay so I like that so now I'm going to quickly go back to the beginning and add my name now that I have my slate and I go up to titles and then I like to put my name on the lower left so I like this one reveal lower third double click on it and it'll appear on here and then you can whoops you can just click on it and then it'll be highlighted like this or you can just delete it and then put your name I really don't hate this font or style and I like how it fades out Hi my name is Belchika Rodriguez I'm San Jose 5-10 and I'm auditioning for Mikayla so that's I like how that looks I'm just going to make it a little bit longer so that my name goes away as I'm showing my profiles for Mikayla I like to put my name because it's not a name that a lot of people know it's not as common as other names and also they don't have to look at the name of the file or the email or anything they can just see on the screen this is this actor's name and it's really easy okay so now I'm going to go back to my media up here and I'm going to select the actual audition and in the description of this audition they did say that first they wanted a little bit more of a wide-angle shot me working on my computer then a tighter shot working on my computer satisfied at what I'm doing and then the last one is as if I was on a zoom call the last clip that they want to see is as if I was on a zoom call talking to a co-worker so I know that my next one is this I'm trying to remember which one is the one that I like the lighting for the best yeah I believe it was this one so oh yeah and you can preview your clips by just hovering over them like this and you can play them too if you just keep your mouse on it and go and click on the spacebar then you can take a look but I know this is the one I wanted so I'm going to select a few clips they did want to see me walking in so I'm going to start it right there command B okay I think that's long enough command B again to clip it and then I'm just going to click on that one and press delete to delete it now that I have my first clip I want to put a transition right here between my slate and my actual audition just for it to look more professional so I'm going to go to transitions and big shout out to Ronjeeve from the mind center center because I took a self-tape audition course with him and one of the things he said was you know you don't want to just end things abruptly or you want to put transitions and just make it nice and I don't know why but in the past I thought oh it's just a self-tape like they don't really care about how professional it looks but it does really look so much nicer so why not do it so big shout out to him for him to like you know showing me like hey like this obvious thing of course you want it to send it looking good so he's like put transitions and just don't make it so abrupt and leave a little bit of time so that the video doesn't just like all of a sudden end you know so they can enjoy watching the audition more so I'm going to put a transition right here I let's see what do we want cross blur I like cross blur I'm going to put it so I'm going to just click it and then drag it over here and then now you have a half second transition I don't know if I like that one for this actually I want something maybe a little bit more chill cross dissolve yes okay I like it so I use cross dissolve for that one and then again I'm going to go back to my media and now I'm going to do a tighter shot of me working let's do the second one and then for this one I already am working on something so I'm actually going to see where my eyes were and then start the next one where my eyes were just so it makes a little bit more sense like story wise okay my eyes are looking down so I'm going to start with this one my eyes looking down a little bit I think that's a little bit lower than not completely down below or okay I like that I don't know if it's too long yet but let's delete that okay it's only 43 seconds so far sorry I keep trying to use the premiere pro shortcuts that's why it's like okay and then the last thing is this line and I it's a line that I just improved and usually for me the last few takes are the takes that I like the best so I'm just going to look at the last takes really quick it just feels like my slate is going to be ours and it was just that was debugging okay I like this one because it looks like I'm paying attention to somebody that's talking and then I react to them so let's delete that I was debugging I was debugging for hours and it was just that one line so you by the way you don't have to select the clip in order to command B but I personally like to because I just like to know exactly what I'm working on I've clicked on other things before but this is the one I chose so I'm paying attention and then I say my improv line for hours and it was just that one line and I'm going to leave just a little bit of a drag so right before I start moving or a little bit of time just that one line okay so I'm just going to leave a little bit of time at the end so that again I can transition it out so I'm going to go back to transitions and I'm going to fade to black do I have fade to black yes right here fade to black at the end and then it looks nicer it looks like it you know it finishes and this is the entire audition and I'm auditioning for Mikayla when you do it make sure you can see your ears both of them darn I was debugging for hours and it was just that one line okay and now to export it once you're done with everything how do you get this out of iMovie into a file so you can send it you can click on the top right right here and then export file if you want to give it to them through we transfer or a raw file gDrive whatever you want you can do it through here and this will save it onto your desktop or wherever you want it when you get a self-tape audition they'll tell you what to title it but usually it should be your name and the job and role or the job and your agency video or audio because you can also edit your voiceover auditions here if you wanted to and then the size of the file 1080 I usually try to make it as nice as possible and it's already pretty fast so I'm just going to leave that as is and then click next and it will ask you where you want it to be located again if you want it to just be easy on yourself be able to find it quickly put it on your desktop so it's done it's been maybe like a minute or so so it's successfully exported but that is how I edit self-tape auditions on iMovie let me know if you have any other questions and at the end of every video I feature another channel this is today's feature if you would like to be featured on my next video make sure subscribed like this video and leave me a comment