Editing the Commercial

Today, our group started the editing process for our footage that we took last Thursday. We plan to use Pinnacle Studio 18 to edit our raw footage. With editing, we are able to organize any raw footage and cut out any unwanted footages and create a smooth and desired scenes for our commercial. However, a huge incident occurred during the beginning of the process. We were supposed to dump the raw footages to a computer but apparently on of the group member did not do it properly. Therefore, when we came back today, we were not able to find our file saved on the desktop. To add on, we didn’t know if it was the group member fault or the fault of the computers as these computers are old and is not the best condition as well. We started to get nervous as we were scared we had to retake every scenes again. We called Mrs.M over where she came and see what the situation was. Thankfully, our video was saved in the SD drive that we took videos on last Thursday.  With the same exact SD drive, we were able to locate the videos and properly dump this time.

So since we now have our footage back, we saved it to Google Drive as well just for the safety of this happening again. As these computers are not functioning properly, we were scared we will come back to class the next time and not locate our files. We saved it on Google Drive just for the convenience of all the group members as everyone is able to see it and edit it. We did not have a physical flash drive so that was our only option. After the hassle, we begin to start editing on Pinnacle Studio but again we ran into a problem. The Pinnacle Studio software was not functioning properly so we had to reboot it several times. As time was running out, we decided to just work on our blog as that what Mrs. M insisted on doing. After several time, we finally were able to open up Pinnacle Studios. To begin editing, we first have to import the footage. To import the footage, we begin by making an empty folder. Then, you highlight all of your files and drag them across into that folder. We then placed them at the box at the bottom of Pinnacle Studio. When we were filming we were sure to take a lot of extra shots so we had plenty of footage to work with. So if there was all my scenes we didn’t like, we were able to cut it out of the scene.

In the end, we did not have enough time to start our editing process as we just imported the files into Pinnacle Studio. Time was running out and we still haven’t finished our blog which was due dm before class today. Hopefully, we will be given time in the next class or else we would have no choice but to do it home. The problem with that was Pinnacle Studio is a paid software so that means for us to use Pinnacle a Studio on our own devices at home, we would have to pay for it. Nobody would want to pay for a software that we probably only use once just for the sake of this specific project. We were looking through all the different scenes we took at different locations however. Some we liked very much. There was some that looked really bad as the angle or the lightning was horrible. We were glad we took multiple shots of the same scenes as that was crucial so we don’t have to retake a scene in case we didn’t like it at all. My group was also thinking of background instrumental so we can play throughout our commercial as the people in the commercial had no dialogues so it would essentially be quiet when there is no sounds in our raw footage. We also plan out which scenes will be our first and what scenes will be our last. We want our commercial to look as professional as possible.