Editing Blog Part 2

In class, I was again given an opportunity to edit the commercial I filmed in class. In the class before, I could not edit because of the computers not working. Then the next class again I couldn't edit again because of how the computer I got with my partner wouldn't load up the editing software. This was a big problem for us since we only had a limited amount of time to edit the commercial. We had waited quite a while for the program and restarted it but to no avail, it still didn't work. We thought maybe it was the school's connection issues because unlike the class before, the software was actually downloaded to the computer. So for a few more times I restarted the program until eventually we stopped to get the teacher. When I took the computer to her she took it and tried restarting it herself. The program still wouldn't load though. We eventually decided to just use a different computer next class.

Finally last class I had a working computer and was able to edit. I turned on the computer and my partner signed in. A part of the process was dumping our footage again. Since we were using a different computer I needed to dump the footage again because of it not being on the computer. To do that we went on my partners Google Drive and took the footage from there. After that it was put it into a folder. Then I booted up the software to edit the footage. We ran into a problem at first because the program wouldn't recognize the footage. We then realized that it was in a zip file rather than in a regular folder. After that I started editing.

To edit I first uploaded all of the footage to the program. After that I went through and selected the footage that looked best. We had a lot of footage that we weren't planning on using so this took a few minutes. Then I put the footage in and started to sort in. This was mainly just making sure it was all in order. Then, I started cutting the footage and trimming it to be the length we needed. After that, we started adding in transitions where they were needed. A lot of the transitions are just cuts from one scene to the next but I did have to look through the different available transitions to find a fade one. This surprisingly took a while because a lot of the fade transitions didn't match what we needed. Finally after all of that, the commercial was completed.