Technology is Hard- The iMovie Edition

So yes.

iMovie. The most exciting way to make movies on a Mac with zero experience and lots of drive.
And lots of time on your hands.

I mean really. A lot of time.

Have I mentioned that making ANYTHING in iMovie is DEEPLY time consuming?

As a proud member of Team Technology-Inept, I will admit that I have tackled iMovie more than once. Usually this tackling occurs when I realize I have to send in some film footage of me doing anything, usually for some fitness certification. (I'm looking at you, willPower&grace.) So I blunder my way into iMovie, ready for a quick, 10 minute process that becomes 3 hours of soul sucking my life away.

It's not ideal.

So when I discovered we were to create an iMovie for this class, I nearly cried. At least one single, solitary tear came out. And I felt really, deeply broken on the inside.

So this is my rant about iMovie.
First- what's with the thumbnails, people? EVERY TIME I open iMovie it has to make thumbnails of all of my pictures, which takes FOREVER and a day, and by the time it's finished doing that, I've lost all of my will to live, let alone any kind of desire to make any kind of video.

Second- BLARGH! That's just the sound that I make whenever iMovie closes for no reason.

Third- Finalizing the video. Again, it takes hours. Should a 3 minute video take 35 minutes to finalize? Apparently. Apparently.

Fourth- Transitions. Now I don't mind a lovely fade in every once in a while, but the mere presence of all of those transition possibilities guilts me into thinking that I have to transition between each one of my photos. And if you want to see this guilt in action, I'd be happy to show you. Just check out my website, here!

Finally- it takes iMovie forever to open, it takes it forever to move photos. Maybe this is really a notification that my computer should be cleaned out because it shouldn't take forever to do anything, but for reals I spent 3 hours on this movie page, when it shouldn't have taken that long. And if it should, then I don't like making movies that much. So there.

Disclaimer: I will say that this member of Team Technology-Inept was able to do a whole bunch of things that she never believed she could do, and therefore iMovie must be particularly user friendly. I'm NOT going to assume that I actually know anything about technology. That's silly.