May 20th

Today i spent the whole day in the edit suite editing together my video. I have finally finished all my animating however there is still one more short scene that i have to film and animate which i hope to get done tomorow. I was in the edit suite all day today on Final Cut Pro. The editing started off really well and i was happy with what i was seeing. However as i started adding the scenes with animation i found that wierd things were happening with the animated parts. They were sort of lagging and very pixelated. This did not look good at all and really needed to be sorted. I didnt have much of an idea why this was doing this so i asked the IT technicians to help me. They didnt know what the problem was either! After a few hours of trial and error and changing settings we managed to figure that the sequence settings was trying to play the videos as PAL compression although they were actually animation compression. Also the sizes of the videos varied which may have been my mistake. Even now though they still did not work as they should. Final Cut is such a powerful and clever software that sometimes its too clever and spots things in files that we dont understant. This whole process and day was very very frustrating and meant that i felt that i had wasted my time as i had not got anything done. I decided to try using the software Adobe Premier to edit my video that i have at home.