One of the greatest problems we encountered during the editing of our film production was converting the footage we had successfully filmed onto the in-built camera memory into a format that proved compatible with the Imacs. The Macs contained the software we used to edit our film production, IMovie, which mercifully proved to be extremely versatile and easy to use having had previous experience and exposure of operating the software when preparing our coursework for the AS module. The delay that was subsequently incurred owing to technical difficulties arising from the conversion of our film footage, proved at first to be problematic as it vastly impacted on the time left available to us to edit our film footage. Despite the time deficiency that was incurred by the error, film editing once we had started, progressed both effectively and efficiently, aspects of the teamwork demonstrated between Zach and I that I was impressed with.
The process that took the longest time to complete within our film editing was converting our footage from the in built camera memory onto a Memory Card that then subsequently the footage had to be separately converted in turn into a format that proved suitable for the Apple Macs. Whilst this did unfortunately result in costing us valuable editing time, I felt that the technological issues could not really have been resolved any quicker than they were and unfortunately were just a hurdle we had to overcome.
Once the hurdle of technological challenges with film conversion had been overcome, I believe we were very successful with our editing as we had already planned the sequence and narrative structure of the piece through our script and storyboarding we knew what footage should go where and we were able to briskly progress with the film editing. Overall, the editing took between 2-3 hours to complete, which I feel was adequate, given the aforementioned technical difficulties and challenges that faced us.
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