Finally Got It!

It has always been a fun thing for me to figure out a computer program I really didn't understand before. I got to do that this week!
I got asked to put together a digital slide show for the Scout Court of Honor this next week. I have used the wonderfully simple iPhoto and had fun with it, but every time I dabbled into iMovie, I just got frustrated. It has a few more audio bells and whistles than iPhoto and this time just seemed the way to go. My daughter kept telling me it was no biggie, that she would help and gave me a few up front pointers. Then as life does, things got busy, getting together before the last min. didn't seem like it was going to happen, so I decided to jump in. 
Maybe it was because I was doing this for someone else, but for whatever reason, things stared to click in my brain. I was getting the hang of iMovie, finally! In the end, the biggest challenge was finding music that was up beat, the right length of time and ok for a scout video. (I mean how would a parent feel about seeing pictures of their son set to "American Woman" by The Guess Who or  "Sharp Dressed Man" by ZZ Top? There are issues of what would be appropriate to consider....A suggestion was made to put a disclaimer at the beginning of the video that I had done the music and the Bishop had no prior knowledge of what I'd used....hee, hee, hee.) I finally found instrumental music that felt right and I  feel pretty good about the results. 
I'm ready for the next time, if there is one. I've figured out how to use both programs and combine their strengths, at least to a certain degree. Someone else may have already known that, but now I do too and it's a nice feeling.