Week 6: Of Projects and Midterms

Its 4am on the morning I have Internet Technologies. I have just finished the editing of the film we did for the class. Its not quite done. Mike has to add some sound in the morning. This has been one of few really horrible projects I've worked on. The only two that I can think of that have been worse is trying to get a DVD to work on Final Cut and when I had to edit soccer with a very shaky camera.

First off the filming went great. We set days and times and everyone showed up and did what was needed. My group has been one of the best groups I've worked with in a long time that actually stayed on schedule and did what they needed to do. The problems came when trying to log and capture the footage. Justin was suppose to edit the project originally. We agreed that I would film and give it my take and he'd edit it for his vision. He ended up not being able to get a computer to read the tape without an error happening. It was at this point when I stepped in to help out and try some other ways. I tried hooking up my camera but it was dead so I took one out from Studio Ops. Then the computers weren't reading the cameras.

This is when I took the tape and tried to deal with it the following day (Tuesday). I had no luck and then went to try it on my friends personal computer. It had a tape error. I tried to upload it with a different camera and it did not work. I went to my last resort which was trying to use iMovie. With this attempt I found both the problem and the solution, and a very long night.

Through iMovie I saw the tape was reading at almost an hour into the tape when it was at the beginning. This timecode error shows why Final Cut wouldn't accept it but iMovie is a horrible program so it accepts this without question. It took forever to process and was much harder to edit than it would have been on Final Cut. I can't really edit the sound on this so it doesn't sound well and Mike will make that a bit better.

Some parts I gave up on since I have no way to control sound. Because of not editing it the way it should be I couldn't make it the best it could be but I think that my team would agree that I did justice for what we filmed. I can't wait for Mike to add some sound and music and for Justin to see it to make any last second changes. With this I go to sleep.

Night all