Exporting issue, and what to do now?

     For this post, I was planning to start the editing process by sorting through the many many takes Miguel had to do during our filming (about 100 clips total including the ones we intend to use) and find the ones we actually wanted to use to then put them in a coherent order on the Premiere timeline for me to edit. However, a couple of complications came in the way of this, namely the part where I get the clips to start editing. In this post, I will explain those issues and how we were able to fix them, and what we will do going forward. 

Why was it complicated?

    The first issue was that Hayden left his camera at his dad's house so he had to go and get it, delaying getting the clips onto his computer to send to me. He was not able to do this till today and late at that. Once he finally got the camera, he called me, and we got to work on getting the clips onto the computer. However, since Hayden did not have an sd card slot on his PC for any PC in his house he had to use a cable to connect his camera directly to the PC and export the clips onto it like that. However, this gave us some errors as well. The first time directly exporting onto his desktop from the camera did not work and was giving him some errors so he wanted to see if he could export it onto premiere which seemed to work, however, his camera died midway through due to the large string the number of clips had on it. This caused Premiere to struggle to locate the clips meaning that this method was also void. 

An error he got on Premiere when he tried to export through there and his camera died.

    So, after that happened we decided to charge the camera for a few minutes and stick to the thing we knew the best and hope it works this time. We decided to go back and try to export it directly onto the pc and this time it worked. Although it is very annoying that it did not work the first time, we were happy it worked at all. 

Image of the clips exporting. Sadly, they would not finish in time to cover today so we are planning on working on it tomorrow.

Going Forward

    Despite all these issues we are still moving forward to produce something that we hope to be proud of using all the skills we have learned. The good news is the sending of the clips process has begun, bad news, it will take about 3-4 more hours to upload onto the drive.

Image of the upload progress.

    Therefore, it goes without saying that the editing for me will be starting tomorrow. However, since Hayden was able to get the clips onto his pc he has started arranging the clips into the timeline properly. The plan is for him and I to each produce a version of the timeline with the spacing of events and then see which one is better tomorrow. By doing this we hope to get the best possible version of the sequence of events in terms of pacing by comparing our ideas and versions. That will likely be our next blog post. Then whichever one is better will be sent to Hayden for color to have a darker color painted over ti since it was originally shot in the day. Then it will be sent back to me so I can do the final edits and add some of the effects. After this is done we will get feedback from our peers as planned and then we shall start on the CCR questions and maybe film some of it. 

    Conclusion

    Solving these issues is an important part of the learning experience in this class. We were never meant to be perfect (although we wish to be) and these issues help us to hopefully never make these mistakes again. Issues with the computer are always frustrating but getting through them to still try and finish is the important part and that is what we are doing. We will hopefully give great updates on the editing going forward tomorrow, until then stay tuned!