At Last! I have been making and editing videos! This is such a relief. I firmly believe that videos are the best teaching tool and my inaction toward the process of making and learning to edit frustrated me. Teaching live Cricut classes finally made me aware of what I needed to do in order to move forward.
I began paying attention to how much my self talk about making videos was so much like the self talk of people who are afraid to use the new Cricut machines they were buying.
IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO FEAR OF FAILURE !!!
I tell my students to look at their Cricut machines and see if it has any teeth with which to bite them if they make a mistake. My aim is to help them appreciate that all new efforts are a learning experience and journey toward improvement and no-one but them will know about their mistakes along the way unless they want them to.
Additionally, every facebook group I belong to is full of people who have already made the mistakes that you and I make and are VERY eager to help us learn and grow in our craft.
So I began paying attention to my self talk to see what I was so afraid of or intimidated by and realized that I was fearful of ruining my video and losing a valuable piece of work.
My solution is to make videos that I don’t care so much about and won’t be so devastated if I destroy during my editing efforts. Now that I am more relaxed I am finding the editing process more manageable and, so far, I haven’t ruined anything!
The editing tool I am using now is iMovie and I have found some good YouTube’s on how to use it. My go to is “ How to edit video on your iPhone or iPad with iMovie-full tutorial”
I hope this post will be an encouragement to those struggling with learning a new technique.
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