The beginnings of iMovie frustration

Well things were of course going too well. On Friday I plugged the individual cameras into my laptop and copied the video files to my own USB storage to take home. My intent was to use the student footage to put together into my own iMovie for a Multimedia Project for my Johns Hopkins Univ graduate class, which is also the reason for this blog. I was busy all day Saturday so I got up early Sunday to work on my own iMovie as I had other things planned for the day. I immediately had trouble importing the videos into iMovie. I had so much trouble I had to wake up the engineer hubby for assistance (sorry hun :( ). He figured out that the files needed to be converted to mp4's and took care of that for me. After he did that I began my first trials with iMovie. There was a two-fold reason for this. First I needed to do it for my project and second I was going to be asking my students to do this next week so I needed to have some familiarity with the program even though they probably already know how to use it. After about 2 total hours I had a rough draft of my iMovie and felt pretty successful but not as successful as I would have liked. I emailed my instructor, J, and asking for his suggestion about how to get around this in class. He suggested that I give the students the mp4 files right off. My only problem is that I only have those on one USB drive. I am not sure how this is going to work.....