Today in class we were supposed to edit our commercials. We had completed filming and were ready to get the footage in and edit it. I took our camera we borrowed from the class, took out the SD card and plugged it into the computer. From there we dumped the footage in and made a folder of all of the clips we had. We also saved the footage online on the Google Drive. Then I attempted to open up the program we use in class to edit. The program is called Pinnacle Studios. As it turns out, however, the computer didn't actually have the program installed. I then found out that almost none of the computers had the program we needed to edit. This became a big problem for our class.
We found that without the program no one could edit their commercials. Some of the computers didn't even work either. Others had trouble booting the computers up and getting anything to work in a timely manner. It also didn't help that the computers were extremely slow. To even open up a website it could take around five minutes. That isn't even counting the time it takes for them to turn on. For a computer to turn on, I was faced with a black screen for a long time and then came the loading page. Logging in took even more time. Thankfully I had used the computer before because if not, it would have taken even longer. Overall,it took way longer than necessary.
Thankfully my teacher said that they will be trying to fix the problem. Apparently we will be working on it as soon as we get new computers. We also could be using laptops instead. Currently we are using old desktop computers from around 2008. Obviously they are much too old for us to use now. This much is shown through the problems we faced just trying to edit our videos.That much effort to get it to work might be a bit much. For a media studies class its important to have the right materials to do our work. Though there are some problems, my teacher is working on getting is the right tools to be able to work. We just have to be patient for now and hope they come soon.
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