First came the painful process of learning Adobe Premiere Pro. I had a very difficult time getting used to the interface. Adobe's programmes, being very capable, are typically complex with infinite combinations to achieve particular effects. Since I'd used Movie Maker for the previous assignment, I was entirely new to this one and spent a few days practicing. Marijn was busy so I did the initial part. The problem came when we tried to send the files over so he could work over the weekend to finish it.
After hours of trying, Marijn spent a whole load of money coming over to work on it while I was completing my essay for another class. This helped, but not by that much since I ended up having to type out documents to explain what each file contained, what had been done and what else he needed to do. I ended up having to stop my work to explain several times and he tried hard to piece everything together. It was difficult to manage and I ended up only adding one paragraph to my essay. Yet another sleepless night to perfect my essay which I'd already worked hard on and didn't want to hand in a crappy piece. It was still kinda scrappy in the end.
Anyway, after I handed in my essay we met again to sort everything out, including some trouble with the CATI computers and having different versions of Premiere & After Effects. Marijn was more comfortable with Premiere, & I with After Effects even though it was a brand new programme to me also. Plus Mac vs Windows issues. Trouble trouble!
Finally we got it together but had little time to work out which shots to snip so the video would fit better. We tried to add in some extra audio in anticipation of audience being lost. We only used a 3second clip because it was actually more crisp than the rest of the video. Tired and nervous, we saved the file and were glad it was over.
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