Technical Problems

A problem we had which affected the post produstion of our video was technical problems with our editing software. We chose not to use Final Cut Express to edit our video because we were already proficient in IMovie so everything will be edited quickly and properly without needing a lesson on how to use it and we didn't need any of the special effects that Final Cut can give us.

We did all of our work on macs open to other film and media students so there are a lot of different user areas with their own work on it. This affected us because the macs memory was limited but we had a lot of footage to edit and needed the space to save and edit it. We worked around this by editing what we needed and deleting what we might not need. Also by not recording over the footage just incase we delete something we need on the Macs.

Another problem with IMovie was the crashing, which was directly linked to the Macs memory problem except when this became a problem it seriously affected our work and was impossible to fix. We would be editing and IMovie our video and IMovie would unexpectedly crash and we would lose whatever we did in that session before the last save. It's easier to edit in chunks then save so when it crashed we would lose a lot of work. This could be avoided by saving frequently but either way we would still lose work unless it conveniently crashed straight after we saved our work. It's easy to avoid but impossible to fix, once our work was gone it was gone!

We did try Final Cut Express to change lighting but importing took long and wasted time, we were inexperienced with it so more time was wasted trying to learn how to use it properly and it created large files, which obviously wasn't helping as we already had memory issues. In the end we just stuck to what we know and used IMovie which despite the flaws can still help produce quality work.