Editing The Commercial

During the past two days, we were supposed to edit our commercial. We will have about two days to edit. This included editing the whole video, filming voiceovers, and making sure it’s perfect. Unfortunately, the computers we have are very old and don’t work. The desktop I’m currently using is from 2008. Any computer or technological device older than about five years, always glitches and is very slow. The computer next to me doesn’t connect to the Internet. This is just an example of how slow the computers we have are. Luckily for us, Ms. Cats is working with administration to get us new computers. It’s very frustrating trying to edit and get things in by the due date when the devices we need are not working. This class, media studies, uses computers on a daily basis so not having computers would be very detrimental to our grade and to our final exam. (11)

When we were starting to edit, the first thing we had to do was get our footage from the camera/SD card to the computer. This was perfect and we were smooth sailing. When we tried to open pinnacle studios, the app wouldn’t even open. The app said there needs to be a username and password. Emiliano tried to put in his Identification Number and password, but that didn’t work. The Identification Number and password is what we use to log into all computers so when that didn’t work, we were very surprised. We called Ms. Cats over and she was able to use her username and password to log into pinnacle. We assumed from here we would be able to edit with no other problems. (8)

Then, the footage couldn’t import from the computer desktop to pinnacle studios. Emiliano tried many different ways to try and import the footage, but he wasn’t able to do it. Me, Katherine, and Andrew also tried to import the footage but that didn’t work either. We called Ms. Cats over to try and do it. She tried many different ways, including ways she didn’t teach us. She was trying to drag and drop the footage from the desktop to pinnacle studios. Usually that works, but unfortunately for us it wasn’t. After trying many different ways, Ms. Cats found out that it wasn’t working and so were a lot of the other computers of students were using. When Ms. Cats found out that almost all the computers weren’t working, she told us to all to stop trying to edit and to start blogging. She said she would talk to administration for us to get a spare computers that actually work. We can’t be in a technology type of class having computers that don’t work when that will be used every single day. Even though a couple of the computers work, Ms. Cats decided that it would be best if we were on the same page of the process. (12)