Editing Blog Pt2

After all the difficulties we had last class we finally got to work on editing our commercial during class. The computers provided by the school weren’t working very well so they provided us with a laptop cart with pinnacle studios installed in all 20 computers. Since our class is really big not all groups could use the laptops at the same time. Our teachers came up with the idea to separate the class in two. While one side of the room was working on editing the commercial the other was planning how they were going to do it. We had 30 minutes with the laptops before we had to turn them in to the next group. We were lucky because one of the teachers told one of our group members Xavier, that they were gonna use that method the day before. Xavier was the first one in class and we got a laptop really fast and got to work very quickly. The problem was that it was the first time we were logging on that laptop so it took us many minutes to be able to use it. After everything loaded we went on the app and got right to work.

The laptops were a bit slow but nothing we couldn’t deal with. We dumped all our footage from a folder into the app and started making the cuts that were necessary. Our raw footage was almost 50 seconds so we had to cut short many scenes. We also fast forward a scene so we could keep the time limit that is required. Xavier was putting the videos in order and making the appropriate cuts while me and Camilo were discussing what song we were going to add to the background and how we would do it. Me and Camilo chose a song and when we were about to add it to the background the thing that we most feared happened. The computer crashed. We were really disappointed because we made some progress and we lost everything. We decided then to give up on using the materials provided by the school and just use what we have. We edited our commercial using iMovie on Camilo’s computer. We made the appropriate cuts and added our background song correctly. We then added slow motion at the end of the last scene when the Nike logo pops up to draw attention to it. After doing that we ran out of time so we decided to work together at home.

Camilo finished the last details at home because he had all the footage on his phone. Before leaving we decide to add a narration of a goal to our commercial with the background song to give a good effect of a game taking place. I sent Camilo the audio and he put it in the right section and it looked really good. It was a last minute idea that gave our commercial a good touch. Camilo also edited the distribution of sound in our commercial. When the audio from the song transitions into the audio of the narration we lowered the volume of the song by 60% so we could still listen to the beat but also listen to the words the narrator was saying. After he was done speaking we raised the volume back up to when the Nike symbol come in, and that came out really good. Overall our commercial came out to be way better than we expected. Besides the troubles we had dumping our footage and using the computer the school provided I believe that me and my group did a really great job.