Construction - Day 1 of Editing

Our first day of editing proved to be quite difficult. First of all our footage was stored on 2 different cameras so we had to upload the clips from both cameras on to our PC. The clips that were uploaded onto the PC did not all belong to our group so we then had to delete the files that did not belong to us. However our group faced another problem. The clips on the camera were of MOD format which is not compatible with Adobe Premiere. To overcome this we had to convert all the files to Mpeg format. This proved to be a time consuming process as there were many files to convert. Once this was done the files were ready to import into Adobe Premiere. We successfully imported the files and they were all ready for editing. We then had to retrieve all the files from the other camera. This was done in the same manner as the first camera but again not all the files were needed so we had to go through all the files deleting the ones that were of no use to us. The files on this camera were of a different format than the first camera. These files were of MOV format which are compatible with Adobe Premiere. We imported these files into Adobe Premiere so we were able to start editing. However we experienced a problem with the files on the second camera. We noticed that the footage lagged which would make it hard to sink the lip movements to the mp3. We were not able to find a solution to this problem, so we decided to cancel editing for the day and try to find a solution to the problem. We tried changing the frames per second which proved unsuccessful and changed the preset for the sequence but which also failed. Even though were not able to edit these files the footage from the first camera worked perfectly and we were able to edit some clips. We successfully edited the first 20 seconds of our video successfully. Even though we were successful in editing we did find matching the lip movements and the music tricky and time consuming. We hope to have found a solution to our problem by the second day of editing and work on our lip syncing skills.

-BYRAN FERROL-