Editing The Commercial

       
       Today we started to edit our footage. The first step in doing this is to dump the footage onto the pinnacle studios software. When we started doing this we had some problems because the pinnacle studios software was going very slowly. It took awhile to load and once it did load the footage wasn’t popping up. So my group and I had to go back into our folder that had our footage and make sure it was still there. Luckily, we saved our footage on a flash drive last class. This helped up by allowing us to have our footage in more than one place just Incase anything happens to the computer. Finally our footage uploaded but it was very glitchy and wasn’t playing at a normal pace. My group became very frustrated at this because the footage wasn’t playing correctly. So we tried to restart the software and see if our footage played correctly.
         Next, when we tried to restart the software we saw that there was more footage on there than we actually filmed. When we clicked on this footage we saw that there was extra footage on the software. The extra footage that was on the computer seemed to be a sample footage that was apart of the software. We then had to go through and delete all of this sample footage. This was a very long process. We decided to just make sure our footage was saved and could be accessed next class. So we  took out of the flash drive and placed it back in. We did this to make sure that the footage would for sure be on the flash drive and gladly it was. We also had extra safe precautions because we used our own SD card so we didn’t have to worry about deleting all of the footage off of our SD card. This was good because we now had the footage saved in 3 places the computer, a flash drive and our SD card.
        My group overall was very frustrated in this process. We had many technical problems and became very stressed because we didn’t have the progress we wanted. My group and I were very determined through this whole class, project. We were always one step ahead and always made sure we had everything we needed. Even in class we were so excited to film and edit because we had so many fresh and new ideas about the commercial. So when we experienced these difficulties we were very upset and worried. We didn’t want the commercial to come out bad because we worked so hard on it and put so much time and energy into it. So we hope that next class the computers will start to work and not go as slow as they were. But on a lighter note when we saw our footage even though it wasn’t working 100% we still liked it .We really liked the lighting and places that we choose. And we like the angles, shots.