Final Editing Blog

On November 5, 2019 we finay started editing our commercial. We ended up having to edit on laptops since most the desktops either don't have internet connection, won't let you sign in or turn on in general. Last week Friday we couldn't edit since all of the laptops were being updated and needed Pinnacle Studios to be downloaded. There are some computers that still don't have Pinnacle Studios but we have a perfect amount for all my class to be able to edit. On the laptops I noticed that Pinnacle Studios sometimes lag but works like a charm. Last class we were able to at least start our editing process but took my group members and I some time. We transferred all of our 48 footages onto Jeannie Google drive but took us time to make them a file then import into Pinnacle Studios. While our footage was importing into Pinnacle Studios our teacher told us that the due for the commercial has been moved to next week Monday. However, today we got a remind message that informed us that the due date for the commerical is at the end of class on Tuesday but the blog is still due today and that the CCR questions are due at midnight on Monday. The commercial and CCR questions are supposed to be sent through email and the blog has to be published by midnight today. 

 Last class once all our footage was imported to Pinnacle Studios we automatically started organizing the structure of the commercial. As we were structuring our commercial we were able to trim some footage so that the commercial can be at least 25 to 30 seconds long. Pinnacle studios was a struggle since it was lagging the whole time but we managed to at least get some done. My group member Asia who wanted to be the editor was very helpful in setting up the footage the way Jeannie and I wanted them to be. Some footage are being shown in the final product even though we never dragged it down to the AV Track 2 box in Pinnacle Studios. We tried to fix the problem with multiple tools provided but it wouldn't disappear. We ended up redoing the entire thing. Once we finished structuring our commercial for the second time we were good to go. Asia the rest of class was looking at transitions and split screen options for us to use. The split screen in our commercial is the most important aspect of our commercial. 

   Today we had a substitute teacher but the laptops were available for us to use. Since today was a PSD day we had limited time to edit our commercial, me and my group members went to work straight away. Everything from last class was saved and what Asia and I worked on was trying to add a split screen into our commercial. We didn't add the split screen and decided to wait until Tuesday to ask our teacher about it. I ended up adding multiple fades into our commercial to reduce the amount of choppiness we had due to cutting and trimming soem footages. While Asia was trying to look for a split screen, I was on YouTube watching videos on how to add a split screen but when I went to add one it didn't allow me to click on the option. We ended up discussing who would do the voiceover and we ended up choosing Asia to do the voiceover for the commercial. We were not able to finish due to limited time but we will be able to finish on Tuesday since we already have the structure down on Pinnacle Studios. All we have to finish on Tuesday is add the split screen, add background music, and transitions. Then we have to make sure we have the exact time of 25 to 30 seconds and we wi be done with the commercial project.