Editing

All of my footage was now gathered and I soon realized that the most difficult part was soon to come. First of all, I had to get the footage from my video camera to a computer to edit. After trying unsuccessfully on my home computer, I went to my mentor for help. Although he was as unsuccessful on his classroom computer as I was on my home computer, he got Mrs. Buse to help me out. She enlightened us that we were using the wrong chord for the camera and showed us the right one. It took about an hour, but I finally got both the first and second videos from my camera onto the computer in the library. I then transferred the videos from the computer to an mp3 player I owned so that I would be able to work on the editing at home if I had to.

At this point I had all of my footage that I would need on one storage device. I started staying after school with Mr. Kish to work on my editing. This was the point when I realized that editing video is way harder than it looks!!! It took me hours to do this part of the project. I had to finish the editing at home, and I ran into some other problems. My computer is not a very top notch machine, and the amount of patience it takes to make a video on it is enormous. The thing froze multiple times, and I had to frequently restart my computer so that I could actually work. When I finished the video, I had been working for about an hour and a half. I clicked to play the final video and the computer froze again and shut down without saving. I had to redo the last hour and a half of work before I could be finished. I was not very happy to say the least.

I eventually finished, and although I was not completely as happy as I wanted to be with the video, I was proud of what I had created. It was now time to organize and present my video to a group of young basketball players.