Tinker Bell’s next adventure was to take place in Chester‘s Roman amphitheatre ― what’s left of it anyway. On this occasion I was not there on my own, but with a colleague who I did not want to keep waiting for too long. Also, while I had the amphitheatre to myself when launching Tinks, she very quickly attracted the attention of quite a few children. Starting to fear that they may not keep their distance when I was going to bring Tinks in for landing, I terminated the flight early while there was still open space for me to manoeuvre.

As a result I had only a very limited amount of footage on this occasion. In the beginning, I was not even going to bother to edit it in any form or shape, but then I decided to try out iMovie’s Trailer function.
The end result is very similar to Quik, but the editing process is very different. The trailer is a template, with placeholder clips that suit the music ― unlike Quik, the score is predetermined and cannot be edited, neither can the sequence of clips. The text slides can be customised to an extent.
So, it does address one of my misgivings about Quik, in that this time I am in complete control with respect to which clips are used. Unfortunately, the tool to select the clips is rather crude, and therefore somewhat frustrating to use.
Also, Quik allows creational freedom in other ways that iMovie Trailer restricts, most notably free choice of the soundtrack. In balance, I think that I still prefer Quik ― the trailer looks at first glance very impressive, but ultimately has very little substance (which helped on this occasion given my severe lack of raw material…).