Today was our final day of editing. We had a lot of issues, as this is our first time actually filming a video and using Pinnacle Studios to edit. The most problems came from when we were trying to cut the scenes for example, some of the scenes wouldn't cut and we have to try to shorten the video from 25 to 30 seconds. We also had technical problems. The computer was going so slow, and I almost thought that we wouldn't have enough time since today was a professional study day. I can admit that besides the technical problems and it being our first time to edit, it wasn't that much of a hassle. We wrote notes on how to edit in prior class periods. Also, in the class before, I had already edited three out of five slides of our video, so it was a little bit easier to do this class. The first problem we always seem to run into while logging on the computer is using the wrong login. At first, I logged onto the computer with my username and password, only to find out that the footage was on my partners login. That basically translates to we wasted another 3 minutes, waiting for the computer to load, to get into her account.
Although we had a hard time editing the video, I can say it was a lot of fun looking at the slides seeing ourselves, and hearing our voice play over and over to see which footage is the best one for our film. The time management was partly my fault because I may or may not have wasted time trying to click between videos to see which one my face looked better in. Also, my partner kept on making comments about how we should have had another day to film because it probably could have been better and also her voice could have been better. It was very funny but tedious when we would try to edit the scenes to make it fit the time. Most of the time when I would try to cut a little bit of the footage out, more than a little bit gets mixed up in the cut and I cut somebody's voice out. Luckily, we have an undo button so I was able to take that back and try editing it again. Another thing I found funny is how much time we wasted laughing at ourselves in the scenes. For example, I was supposed to be a mean business lady in the commercial so we would sit there and laugh at my part. At the end of our editing we ended with a little over 30 seconds. Boy was I mad that it wasn't a solid 30.
With only seven minutes left in the class, we were trying to figure out how to cut this part out to make the video 30 seconds. For whatever reason, the computer was not letting us cut, which we really freaked out about. Luckily, we finally figured out how to do it, yet we figured that we should export the footage, and save it onto our drive just in case. We had a little more issues with that then we thought, so we had to ask our classmates for help. We even had to ask the substitute, hoping that she would give us an answer. By this time, the bell had already rung, and we were going to be late to class. At first, we tried to go through the computer to export it to our drive, but it did not work that way. I took over the computer and I tried to go into the drive from Google Chrome, import the footage from the folder, and put it on to our drive and it worked. All in all, we were able to save our footage, although we were late to class. Once again, it was a hassle trying to cut, shift, and make the scenes make sense, but it was fun.
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