All of this was not readily available to us had we made it 10, 20 years ago, where a lot of things were made with simply a camera, for example the Star Wars opening crawl was printed and filmed very slowly with a camera at an angle.
Now, there are built in effects to do this kind of thing, everything is a lot more simple, and there has been a lot of technological convergence and now everything is available on one machine, you could even create an entire film from scratch with an iMac as it has a camera and editing software in one.
We found frustrations in some of the video editing, for one, we initially couldn't figure out why our videos were exporting out in such a low quality, which we did figure out fairly fast, it was simply a matter of creating a new project but with higher settings. We also found it was complicated to import on to iMovie HD, as we had to first import it to iMovie, before importing it again to iMovie HD, there was no work around to this but now there is Final Cut Pro in which we would happily edit and import on. There was also some editing restrictions with iMovie, for example we wanted to add a muzzle flash to the shotgun but there was no way to do it with what we had (although once again it's easy to do in Final Cut Pro).
Generally though, we found the editing software quite forgiving, we worked well with it and got out what we needed to in the end.
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