Today our group started the editing process for the footage we gathered last Thursday. To edit our footage together we used pinnacle studios 18. This footage is called raw footage because no changes have been made to bring it together. Through the process of editing we are able to make our commercial come to life and really. Last Thursday one of our group members had supposedly dumped the footage. To dump you must make an extra folder on your desktop and then move your recorded footage from the SD card to the folder. This is what should have occurred but something had malfunctioned in the process. When we went to go check up on our footage to prepare it for editing it had disappeared. The computers are not in the best of shape. It could have been a malfunction with the computer or a mistake with how our group member dumped.
Either way though our teacher came over and helped us to retrieve our footage. Although we could not find the footage on the computer it was still possible to get it back. We had gotten our same SD card and dumped again to get our footage back. Then we had to save our footage to our Google Drive accounts for the safety of our assignment. Work on the computers tends to be easily be wiped or lost so its much safer to back up your footage somewhere else just in case. This can be due to the interference of other students or something wrong with the computer itself. We had the option between saving it on a flash drive or google drive. We decided on Google Drive that way everyone could have access to it. Also because no one in our group had an extra flash drive. There is also always the chance that the flash drive can be easily lost since its so small and only one person would have it.
After all our footage was secure then we were able to open up Pinnacle Studios 18. To begin editing we first had to import our footage. To import you begin by making an empty folder. Then you highlight all of your files and drag them across into that folder. To begin we had to highlight all our takes. We placed them at the box at the bottom of Pinnacle Studios. When we were filming we were sure to take a lot of extra shots so we'd have plenty of footage to work with. If there was a shot we didn't like we'd have a variety to choose from as the alternate for the final product. So we begin cutting out the footage we would not include in our commercial. To delete footage we had to click on the razor symbol slightly above. We then started on placing our footage in order. Next class we will continue making cuts and working on order as well as selecting and placing our audio.
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