Editing the Commercial

The dumping process was already completed last class which went very well. However, the editing process in pinnacle studios did not start off very well. There were a lot of issues and setbacks. We saved all of our footage on my flash drive so we wouldn’t have to worry about it being deleted from the computer. When pinnacle studios was open I called over our teacher so she can log in for us to start the editing process. Transferring the footage from the pinnacle studios was probably the easiest thing we did all class. After that everything was pretty much going downhill. The whole software was going completely slow. So it was very difficult for us to get anything done. This caused a delay on the whole project. 

First we tried to look at our footage that was taken off of the camera. The footage on the computer was very blurry and glitchy. We then realized there was some random already in  pinnacle studios. I then had had to delete the other video’s soundtrack, video, and transitions. This was somewhat dreadful because of the technical difficulties that were going on. It took a very long time for all of the footage to be completely gone, which took time out of our editing. When everything was completely blank I then tried to drag at least one video to the “video track” to see how the our footage will play. I had a little hope that it would play perfectly fine but my wishes were crushed. Almost all of the footage was horrible. I began to worry and stress because nun of out footage was coming out as expected and the class period was almost over. 

I exited out of pinnacle studios and tried to watch the footage from the computer alone. The clips were still going slow, at this point we started to panic. We barely got any editing done because the software was going not as expected. We then realized that the reason that everything is glitching is because of the computer in general. One of my team members then called over a student so she could help us download it to our google drive. I first logged into my google accounts, selected all of the footage from the computer, then dragged it to google drive. The wait for all of the 51 videos to upload to google drive did not really take a long time. We then watched the clips from the google drive which bring us some hope. The footage was no longer glitchy and came out perfectly fine. This bring us some hope because our footage was not the problem. Although we didn’t really complete any of our true editing processes it wasn’t our fault.