Hymn Project #2: Amazing Grace

This is the last project of the year and I chose the hymn "Amazing Grace". 

I started with GarageBand for the music and finished with iMovie for the video. 

If you want to know how to create a video with your own music, check my last article (here is the link).

Hope you enjoyed!!!

Hymn Project #1: Glory Be To Jesus

The new project begins with GarageBand: File-->New-->Empty Project-->Software Instrument.
The first thing we have to do is creating a MIDI region in order to insert the hymn in GarageBand. The melody of "Glory be to Jesus" can be disassembled in four different parts: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. We need to create then four MIDI sections, one for each part.

Soprano

On the right you can see the screenshots of the four MIDI regions that we have to create in GarageBand.

Alto

Tenor

Once we have the music, we have to look for the instruments: which instruments play in an orchestra? We can search on the web and the results will be similar; we need a woodwinds, brass and a strings section. For each section then we have to know which part of the hymn each instrument will play: Wikipedia offers all information that we need for this choice.

Bass

Now on GarageBand we just have to select all the instruments that we have chosen and copy one or more MIDI section (from the firs that we created) in that instrument.
At the end, with all the instruments, it will look like below.

If you prefer the organ you can add it in the place of the piano

At the end we have 32 

When you finish go on Share-->Song to iTunes; now you have the MP3 version of the hymn that you can put on iMovie so that you might start editing the video.

Now open iMovie. File-->New Movie. Now you have to add the music (the MP3 file that you saved with iTunes) on the bottom of the iMovie project (as you can see in the screenshot below).
To add a slide, click on Titles, in the bottom left corner of iMovie; you now can see all the themes: drag the one that you prefer in your timeline to create the slide. Drag on the top of a slide to change its length in order to make it last for the whole verse. You can now choose the pictures for the slides; to add a picture to a slide, just drag the picture (or its file) in the slide and click on Replace. We want to add a cropping: click on the slide, then go to Adjust-->Cropping and choose the one you prefer; we used the Ken Burns crop to make the picture moving around the screen.
We still have to add the lyrics of the hymn: double click on a slide to add a text; write or paste your lyrics on the slide and adjust the time in order to obtain a perfect transition between slides, verses and music.
Now that your project is finished go to File-->Share-->Theater to export your movie and create a version of it that you can share on YouTube or keep in your computer.

Here is my Hymn: Glory Be To Jesus.

As usual thank you for reading my blog, I hope that my instructions are enough clear and easy to understand. Enjoy!