Editing issues - Problems with the MAC's

Because we made the sound for our opening sequence before we'd even filmed it, editing was less of an issue for us than other groups. Where others had to fit music around a scene with dialogue as a  source of plot points, we only had to fit imagery to the sounds we'd created beforehand.

With our experience of continuity editing, we set to work trying to piece together our project. We hit a few snags along the way.

1. The computers in the different media rooms were not compatible with each other. When we tried to take our files from the macs to the PC's, they system got confused and couldn't find any of the media. This meant that we could only edit in the mac suite, cutting into the amount of lesson time we could spend editing.

2. Rendering. In the beginning, files took about 20 minutes at a time to render, This was to do with the MAC's being slower computers than the PC's in the other room, but because of the problem we mentioned before we could not use the PC's and had to deal with the MAC's. We later learnt that if we rendered every five minutes or so then the process was much shorter.

3. Certain files were only available on one mac. This meant that we could only edit our film on one specific computer.