Evaluation - What have you learned about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?

The best option we had to choose from was premier pro, something after which we experienced we wished we had gone for a different piece of software. However despite this premier pro does allow for precise frame to frame editing, not only this but it provides a range of effects. Effects of which played a primary part in the construction of our piece, and so the problems with premier aside, it is good piece of technology that did indeed provide with much of what we needed in order to makes and put together out piece to the highest quality. While it may have been able to outfit our project with all of these fancy effects and able to allow us to edit with upmost precision, premier did not come without its drawbacks. We were made to suffer through countless errors and debug, which each time shut down the program deleting any work we had not previously saved, in many cases this resulted in us having to redo many things over and over, prolonging to period of editing almost exceeding out given deadlines. The problem was that the camera we used which shot HD, obviously giving us a great shot quality and good polished looks to our footage. Premier on the other was something that was not suited to this higher quality of format, and so when the files were put on it resulted in elongated periods of rendering and immense loading times, which over time just meant more and more time had to be poured into editing something which for  time worried us that we would not be able to hit the final deadline. Thanks however to Mr Earl, who converted out files to a DV format and re-uploaded them onto the server, when these lower quality files were put onto premier we found almost instantly that premier functioned and ran so much quicker. It was thanks to this that we finally began to make real progress with our project, managing to render in about half an hour rather than six hours which it was before. However it was not just the editing software that we had to deal with, the camera we used as mentioned filmed in HD and was set default to film in 60 frames per second, however this 60 frames per second was too high quality and so we had to reduce it to 30. The only problem was when the camera was closed it would reset itself to default back to the sixty setting meaning that the camera had to be left on throughout the whole process of filming which when moving about from location to location was something difficult to do and did result in some footage filmed in 60 frames and so making it more difficult to edit being that it was of a higher quality and making loading times increased and paining us again with the loading times and rendering times. However overall we learned that it is beast to convert the footage to DV format before editing something on a larger scale being that it loads quicker and runs quicker making the editing process alot quicker and less arduous experience.