So, I’m guilty for doing a last minute work. I checked the computer lab yesterday but it’s closed. So I did my work today with the assumption if the lab will open all day until late at night.
I went to the lab today but it’s closed. I freaked out (again I said I got stress a lot). So I went to the journalism department office and the lady who worked there opened the lab and said it’ll be opened only until 4:30 today. I was glad but I was not sure if I can finish it by that time.
Almost all my videos were already in my lovely MacBook Air (yes, I love my MacBook although it’s really slow) and I gave them names and numbers to speed up the editing process. No… not helpful at all because when I tried to transfer my files to my flash disk, it said, “Not enough memory.” I felt like screaming and pulling my hair and just cried. I was so stressed and I didn’t have enough time. Oh yeah… I didn’t have enough time… I remembered so I tried not to be stressed and think about what should I do.
I took out my flip cam. Yes! All the files that I recorded were still there so I copied some of the video that I needed and did a quick “inpoint” and “outpoint” thing on the video (a quick dirty way but it worked a wonder for me!)…. I nearly finished my little decent or nearly decent video. I tried to put a video transition on it but what happened??! I didn’t know what happened but it won’t work. So after I played with the cursor a bit and tried to google things. Anyway, finally, I just worked like that and yes, a little bit after 5 o’clock in the afternoon, I was done (or so I thought).
I tried to upload the video to Youtube and somehow, it won’t upload. I was so desperate I google it again, hoping I’ll find something. Yes, I did find something but I needed a Final Cut Express Pro for that… Ergh… didn’t have that.
I tried to use QTAmateur (don’t know now why I even considered using that program) and export it through Quick Time Player. When I used the Quick Time Player and hit “export,” it took me forever to export the video. It kept on showing if it still worked on exporting my video when in fact the program actually didn’t responded to my request. After I ran out of my patience, I put the video that I made using the Final Cut Express and transferred it to my lovely slow Mac.
I clicked Youtube and yes, it worked. It took me about 45 minutes to upload the video and I kept on praying if Youtube won’t hate me and my Mac will not fail me by doing a decent job this time. Yes, it failed me several times before… Anyhow, the video uploading process was really the most painful one because I thought all my painful work with the Final Cut Express will be wasted if I won’t be able to upload it to Youtube. More importantly, what should I do if I cannot upload my video?
I need a decent program to work on my videos in the future. Hopefully, the program won’t take all day to render or respond to any of my command. I want a program that won’t make me feel nervous about not being uploaded or crashed in the middle of my editing process… Santa, send me a miracle this year so I’ll be good next year.
