In 5 minutes or less: I made a video! Here’s what I learned…

iMovie for Mac is a great place to start. Sure, it’s not the best software out there. But it’s free for Mac users (or really cheap) and very easy to use, especially if you’re just getting started.

It took me under 20 minutes to shoot my video. And it took another 30-45 minutes to edit my video.

All in, I’m at about an hour.

I distributed my video on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

I made it in a square format, with “letterboxing“ black bars above and below my 16:9 video.

The black letterboxing let me put a large-type caption above and below my video. Great for thumb-stopping power on mobile.

Check out the video on all of my channels to see what I came up with!