i movie

I have compiled all my images to make an animation in i movie to begin with as i think this is the most simple program to work with. When i imported my pictures it automatically put a strange effect on all of them, called the Ken Burns effect. This is simply removed by selecting all the images and clicking on 'Show photo settings' then unticking the Ken Burns Effect box. Apart from this I found the program really easy to use - you simply drag and drop your pictures onto the timeline. I couldn't work out how to highlight groups of photos to change their duration all at once so I unfortunately had to each one individually, though all in all the whole process only took roughly an hour. As the program is so simple, I didnt have as much control over the transistions. I put a fade in/out at the beginning and the end but it will only attach itself to the first and last clip which made it quite jerky and not flowing. I also dabbled with few of the video effects and added an aged affect to make it look old fashioned as the animation is very lo-tech. I decided to produce something simple and without using too much technology because I wanted to focus solely on the editing software and what this is capable of. Next I am going to experiment with final cut though I did import all my images onto it before and it seemed that the shortest frame duration is 1 second which is much too long for animation purposes.