editing the commercial

Hey ya'll,
      Today's blog is about the frustrating process we call editing! So last class we started dumping the footage into the new folder so that we can easily import it into pinnacle studios so that we can start editing quickly. This is really where the frustration began for the majority of the class. Pinnacle studios wouldn't log in no matter how many times our teacher put in the username and password! This quickly began to get frustrating for me because I like getting things done quickly without too many issues. After about 20 times of signing in, pinnacle finally opened. Thanks to my computer being as slow as it is, it took forever for me to clear what was already set on the screens so that we could begin our editing process. So now we have everything clear and we're ready to import our clips and start editing everything to make our commercial. Here's the kick, pinnacle studios wouldn't let us import anything. At this point I'm so upset to the point I wanted to punch the computer to see if that would get it to work, but of course I'm not allowed to do that unless I want to pay for it, which I don't so you see my dilemma. We're to the point where even our teacher is mad, because computer 1-12 don't even have pinnacle studios installed! And the computers that do aren't making our lives any easier, In all the years that Mrs. Marchionne has done this she's never had a problem with importing, exporting, with anything. So now she can argue that we physically cannot complete our assignments with computers that are not properly functioning. Now hopefully we are getting new computers soon so that we can edit our commercials without all the frustrations.
         After Mrs. Marchionne called our office, she told us that we can't edit during that class because our computers are just giving us a hard time. She also told us to move our file that has all of our footage to a flash drive or even better on our google drives. This just in case something happens to our computers. After that those who still needed to film continued till we had our code yellow and red drills. Once our drills were done we had maybe 15-20 minutes left in class, some kids started working on their filming blogs others just found something to do like work for another class or some kids just passed time on their phones. Only about five of the computers were actually working, so today none of us are editing due to the fact that we're getting new computers and that all of our work would be gone once we get them. So today we blog, continue to film if we have to, and do other work for other classes if we have it. Some kids are even recording their voice overs, we are finding a lot of creative things to do while we wait until we can film. We find ways to make the best out of stressful situations, being teenagers we're in a lot of them. It helps to have a teacher who helps you with the things you need. She keeps you relaxed and feels your annoyance. In other words she's kind of like a mom lol. So eventually we'll get to edit and turn in our projects, but right now there's nothing that we can do, we don't have enough working computers for all of us to be able to edit and work in time for our deadline. Luckily our deadline is pushed back because of the problems with pinnacle studios. So moral of the story make due with what you have, and try to make the best out of a stressful situation. I'll see you guys next time!

Yours, Tay