Editing process

After a long and grueling series of complications, our editing of our music video is almost complete. As my concentration has been fully on the editing process, my blogging of editing has slowed down.

We ran into a number of problems, which we have eventually overcome, which include:

• File format - our video format was a file type which meant that Final Cut Express would make us have to render each piece of footage over and over every time any sort of change was made. For the first few weeks, we only got a very tiny amount edited due to having to re-render every time we made a change. Eventually we found a format we could convert all of our clips into so that we would not have to render. Though at first converting all the videos was time-consuming, after that we had a much easier time editing, with the ability to micro-manage timing.
• Space - our high-definition footage was very large in space, and our amount of clips we ended up with filled up the hard drive completely on our editing Mac. To tackle this, we originally started deleting the clips which we had simply put in a folder labelled 'Unusable'. After that, we realised much of our footage had duplicates, due to the unconverted footage still on the hard drive. Deleting every clip which we had already converted freed up almost 60 gigabytes of space, which conquered our problem.
• General filming problems - these include not all people being able to make filming dates, weather problems for continuity, filled space on the SD cards during filming days, location availability.