Progress made from filming to editing.

This week I have spent time each day experimenting with the different types of editing software. After we filmed and labelled all of our clips in order, the first software we tried to use was Abobe Premiere Elements. There has been a lot of problems with this particular software with the computers at school. We tried importing all of our clips but the software wouldn't allow them to be added. The reason for this was unclear although we were told that it was possibly because the format of the files were not compatible. To solve this problem we converted the original clips into two other formats, WMV and MPEG files. This way we thought that at least one file type would work. After this, we then tried importing the clips again into Premiere but we once again came across the same problem so we gathered it was the software itself that was the issue. As this software wasn't working for us we got in touch with the ICT technicians to see if they could solve the problem. They tried hard to fix it over a number of days but whilst it was working for others, we were still having issues with starting to edit our video due to the lack of software. Whilst the technicians were trying to fix Premiere, I decided to use Windows Movie Maker for the time being so that I could at least try and do some form of editing as we were running short on time. This software would only allow me to import the WMV files so I managed to edit nearly a whole minute of the entire video. Once I started editing I got really excited that the video was coming together as a whole as the clips made much more sense and looked exactly the same as the storyboard. The lip syncing looked very effective as timings were very accurate and the variety of clips looked very successful. I then saved the video on Becca's memory stick so that she could view it at home as she too has Movie Maker. I was disappointed to hear that she couldn't view the video due to further problems with Movie Maker and the format of the clips once again. The software said that the files were not in the correct format. This was quite frustrating as it was yet another attempt that got quite far into the editing this time but the software once again let us down.  This then meant that neither pieces of editing software was working for us. Tomorrow is the deadline for our draft music video and it was only this morning that we managed to actually start using Adobe Premiere. We had multiple attempts as we were affected by other factors such as slow software, low disk space and bad quality clips although we did manage to put together a short amount of the video. We had to use the WMV files which do not look a great quality in the video but at least we know have an idea what the clips look like together and how well they link. The timings are not perfect as we were short on time and this is something that we will make sure are completely correct if we are able to complete the full video with the better quality MOD files next week. I am eager to start editing the whole video again once the software is completely up and running as I have found that I now have enough experience and the skills to use Adobe Premiere due to testing each type of software this week. The time wasted trying to fix the problem is quite disappointing as we were both looking forward to put the video together although we hope to have constructed a draft of the whole video by some time next week!