Conversion

With filming complete (post coming soon) before editing could begin, we needed to change the orginal MPEG files from the camera, to AVI files for sharing amongst the group. Using AVS Video Converter, I converted the vieo. It is a long but supposedly fairly simple task, as I just had to follow the intructions posted on the walls of the classroom. Everything seemed to be going fine and conversion took about a half hour. However, once distributed to all group members, a very large problem occurd. On nearly every computer,the files played as audio  files and not at all in Premiere. This was strange as it worked on a Mac or on a computer in different software combonations. After much debate and consultation it was decided to just try reconverting as something had obviously gone wrong.

After relinking the camera and going through all the steps I realised I had missed the vital step. The "profile" had been set as DivX format instead on the Uncompressed PCM version we are looking for. This was a major error on my own part, but once the problem was identified and the files run back through the converter, everything seemed to have worked fine. To insure no time was wasted I did some Premiere testing of the files before hand to check that they actually worked. These had positive results so after some trouble saving everything (it is over 20GB in size) the files are now on a portable hardrive ready to be distributed to the other group members. I have now moved onto Premiere, and after learning the basics of Premiere (see skills profile) I haved started editing.