Through doing this product i have discovered many things about technologies for example, how infuriating they can be!
Though-out the entire time of doing this producton i have had to used a mac, as opposed the the previous software i have used in the past which have been Microsoft windows. To begin with because i wasn't particularly used to this form of computer i found the process of finding things and saving things on these devices somewhat tedious, and because i was very unfamilar with everything, this appeared to be much harder than it needed to be. However even though this first obsticle was a bit of a hurdle to get over, eventually i did end up getting the hang of it, and managed to have a better knowledge and understanding on how things worked. Still i prefer windows to macs, but i feel as if my skills in macs have increased as well as confidence in using them.
SLR CAMERA
In order to shoot footage for our film, we used an SLR camera, the college offered video cameras, however we believed that this single lens reflex beat would have more of a profession outcome and help towards making our film look more realistic and exceed that on anyone elses. The only downside is that the files were substantially larger on SLRS as the detail was more pronounced and there were more pixels in the given shot then what there would have been if we had used a regular video camera. Because our footage was larger, in order to record the maximum amount we had to use an 8bg memory card (larger than what some of our peers were using, as it was necessary). Although you do notice a substantial improvement in some of our shots, having a large file to import and edit proved to be difficult and again, we ended up making it harder than it really needed to be.
FINAL CUT PRO
We used Final cut pro in order to edit and successfully construct and present our media product. This program allowed us to cut, shorten, lengthen, replicate, temporaily delete and just generally edit our product accordingly. Again this proved to be a very long excersise as i had mentioned before in the previous paragraph that we encoutered more problems than that we should have because of the large sizing of our files. Rending took atleast 5 times as long as our peers doing similar projects, also final cut wasn't always the most reliable as it was unable to cope with this amount and froze quite regularly. Which was frustrating when we hadn't saved for a while, so much of our time was wasted on this. Also we chose to have more footage than most other groups, which now i regret as, with this problem adittion it does take a lot longer than it really should.
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