Editing the Commercial

        On November 5th and 7th we edited our commercial. On the first day for editing we had to firstly get all our footage from google drive onto pinnacle studios. So we downloaded all the footage and then imported it onto our computer. By the time I arrived to class we had already selected a computer and begun to upload our footage to Pinnacle Studios. The process was slow with our computer taking quite a while to log on and on top of that the files taking a long time to download and render. When the videos were done downloading and were on Pinnacle Studios our editing process begun. The first plan of action was to decide which scenes we should use we went over our scenes and handpicked which ones would look best. This process took quite sometime since we had to sit their and review which scenes would be best for our group.
       Now that we have our videos on our timelines we started cutting them and removing our unnecessary scenes. This was to save as much time as we could with the commercial only being allowed to be 30 seconds long. Afterwards we decided to add some effects on thee first scene. We put a shadow on the first scene making it seem intense and removed all sound from the video except a piece at the end for effect. Then we made some clips in the middle slower since they looked better played in slow motion. We lastly added a fade in on the beginning and fade out near the end into a Gatorade logo. This as all we did for our first day. This made it a lot easier for the next day since it was a PSD (Professional Study Day). These days are three hours shorter then our other days making our classes even shorter. Doing all this work made it so we could easily edit a couple of things and be done.
       November 7th was our second day of editing and was a PSD. With our limited amount of time all we had to do was put in the music and add the Gatorade logo at the end. Near the beginning it was pretty peaceful with our wok going well until we ran into some problems. Our first problem was the music it made the video look dumb with some intense battle music rather then a workout song. My teammate and I said it would look better if  the music was eye of the tiger since it would suit what was going on in the background. The music that was there didn't even match up well with the events.
We argued back and forward but our stubborn teammates where to lazy for change. so I just gave up arguing it was useless trying. Now with the music done all we had to do was put on the Gatorade Logo. This became hard since we had added text and effects and also kept the sound of the last scene taking up all the tracks. We couldn't make the video longer with it being exactly 30 seconds so we had to leave it be. Last we had to export which created multiple problems. During exporting our video the computers weren't working properly and didn't allow us to export our video. We ended up not exporting our video and just asking the teacher to extend the time n which they graciously accepted.