November 25th

In todays lesson, we were planning on having an hour of looking back on our work and progress so far on the course. Whilst viewing our film to date, we came across a major problem which needed solving urgently. When the film played, the clips worked fine, however none of the clips had accompanying sound. To solve this problem we dragged the clips onto the timeline again. We thought this may cause the sound to connect with the clips, however, this was uneffective. After this failed attempt, we looked for advice from our fellow classmates who were, alike us, also editing on Final Cut Express, hoping they would be able to figure out a solution. We found out that after dragging their files onto the timeline, the sound clips were already attatched to it, which was not the case in our situation. Our final resort was to pass our queries onto the computer technician, who managed to discover the cause of the problem, (the problem being that the camera we used did not have an adequate voice recorder that was compatible on the Final cut Express software. He managed to rip the sound from the video clips. This allowed us to import them into the programme as ditatched files. This was quite a problematic experience, however it taught us how to overcome this problem in the future.