Editing Blog

10/28  Today was the day to edit for our commercial. I had some issues with the computer. Our computers are very slow, outdated, had confusion with logging into Pinnacle Studios. There was already footage of another group in our computer. Since we have dumped our footage in the computer we will now start editing. The software Pinnacle Studios is very helpful for our commercial. It allows us to quickly access tools we need to perfect our video. Pinnacle Studios is already installed in the schools Media Studies computers. The software needs a username and password to be logged into. We didn't know the password or username, so one of our teachers had to come over and log on for us. 

     Most of the time, we were frustrated because we were confused. We expected the editing process to be easier, since when it was described to us it seemed simple. Hopefully after more use of the editing software it will become easier for us. I am expecting more practice on editing with our teacher. We are still not sure if we should delete it or just continue with our editing and disregarding it. We transferred our footage and started to edit. There was much we had to cut out to make the commercial 30 seconds. We had some confusion on adding text onto the clips we wanted. We are planning on adding motivational music to make it like a real Nike commercial. It is important for us to make this as best as we can to get a high grade. Since this is our first video our group has edited we will try to research more on how to edit. 

     We finished filming our commercial last class. I feel that this commercial was challenging to edit, even tho we are  not done our computer has still caused quite a lot of problems. The more we use Pinnacle Studios the easier the future videos will be. My group and I haven’t fully finished editing. We will continue next class. I will research more on how to edit using this software.  This class doesn’t require much work but we still need to put effort into it. I will work on editing better and watch videos so our commercial comes out great. As a self reflection I wish I would be given more time and more guidance. I do think we will be given two days for this because we were given two days for the filming process