Tuesday, 19 March 2019

Problems with the Edit- Cereal Offenders

While looking over the editing process, we noticed how the computers we were using seemed to struggle with editing software and the edit project itself. Whenever I tried opening it up on my own laptop, it would immediately crash and the computers at the university and television studios would also either freeze or lag to such an extent that we could no make any progress.

The only computer that could run the edit progress relatively smoothly was Aimee's laptop which was a more up to date model. After enquiring with others as to what might be wrong, it turns out that Jason, our cameraman, had accidentally filmed the entire production in 4K, though it was only intended to be filmed in standard HD as we knew filming in 4K would cause many problems during the edit such as those we have been experiencing. This was apparently because choosing to the option to film in V-log automatically set the camera to record in 4K (something I thought the cameraman should have been aware of). The use of 4K footage also means that anything that sues this footage takes up much more space than HD footage would have, which will cause problems in terms of memory space.

A temporary solution we have thought of was to export each scene individually so that I can try and edit the sound on another computer for each individual scene without the computer crashing or lagging too much. This still makes me wish that the sound wasn't recorded via the Tascam as the process of the editing the sound appears to have become a lot more challenging and tedious than it should have been.

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