6/29 – With the amount of footage I have on my external hard drive, I’ve found that working directly from it is extremely frustrating because even one simple edit seems to take a minute or two to render. Transferring it to the computer’s hard drive is not an option, since it is shared with others and there is simply not enough room. With having me working on Adobe Premiere Pro version 2.0 on Windows XP, I really haven’t found this last few days of editing very efficient. I haven’t had a problem until now. What’s a little frustrating is that while I had my short stint as the graphic designer intern, I was able to work on a MAC and use CS3.
6/30 – Early this morning I finished the lecture series and started to export it. The finished product was just a little over 5 hours long. I had started to begin exporting it and it would be a couple of hours. Later, I was told that there was going to be a slight change. In the lecture series there were seven different speakers, and I was instructed to put each speaker in a different track. This was so that when the DVD is burned, people have the option of watching certain ones instead of having to sit through the whole thing. Obviously, this was frustrating as well, but it had to be done. It seems like not only my projects, but a lot of the other interns have had similar situations so I definitely can relate. It’s good to have the real-world experience to having to adapt to unexpected situations.
7/1 – The rendering and exporting of the video took about 3 to 4 hours, so I had to leave the computer on overnight. When I came in today, I found that my hard drive still did not have enough space and so the export failed. So, today was mainly continuing on exporting the lecture series video and continued on doing the lynda.com tutorials. Again I had to leave the computer on overnight and hopes everything works.
7/6 – It looked like the export went well. After I looked over the video, I told my supervisor Jamie that I was done. I asked if there was a new project for me to do, and she said she didn’t have any for me at the time and I should continue on tutorials. While I’m bummed that I didn’t get any new projects, I did find some interesting videos on lynda.com. They were documentaries about designers and design agencies and I decided to watch them rather than do tutorials. I watched videos on Kit Hinrichs (graphic designer), New Deal Studios (Specia/Visual effects), and Trigger (Interactive design studio). I thought it was a good way to spend my time and while it was only watching videos, I still felt productive. It was a good day.
7/7 – So today I learned that I made a mistake with the lecture series. Instead of putting each speaker on tracks, I was supposed to put them in different timelines instead and exporting each timeline separately. I misunderstood the directions and I felt really bad. Since this had only been my second major editing project, it definitely was frustrating yet I felt a little incompetent. So the day was spent fixing my mistake. I ended up getting two of the seven speakers’ bits exported.
7/8 – Jamie told me today that I’d be getting a new project involving motion graphics and that the producers would tell me more about it later. This was definitely exciting. After going through the After Effects and other software tutorials, it definitely got me excited to work with those programs. The last few days didn’t go that well, so this was a morale booster. Unfortunately, I still had to export the rest of the speakers in the lecture series, so the majority of my day was waiting for the videos to render and export.
Also, I learned today that ABC Family has offered to pick up Footnote but the bad news was that it wouldn’t get a good time slot. While I kind of hoped that the producers would accept since this was a big deal getting an offer, they wanted a better time slot. ABC Family offered them one that was in the early hours of the morning, but ideally Footnote would be shown around midnight.
