I don’t know what is happening to me right now, but all I know is that I’m bed-ridden with a nasty cold during pre-flu season. Other than the Melbourne weather, I could blame this cold as a result of some slightly stressful technical issues while filming and editing assignment 2.
- A corrupted compact flash-drive card
In a way, I’m thankful that this did happen at the right moment. I managed to back-up my Canon 7D footage that I was hoping to use for the interview, however, Rohan strongly recommended the use of the Sony X70 video camera. As soon as I wanted to do a re-shoot of Norma’s interview, the Canon 7D compact flash-card corrupted (confirming this occurrence after running through all the camera shops along Elizabeth St.) and it was definitely a sign from the universe saying to re-shoot the interview with a proper video camera. Schedule was then delayed as there was a shortage of Sony X70’s. However, I was much more pleased with the outcome of the footage on the Sony X70. You could say it was some blessing in disguise.
- Lapel mic and H4n
The annoying part was after the interview I decided to re-watch the footage onto my laptop using VLC and the sound wasn’t working!! Out of frustration, I decided to bolt to back to RMIT to collect the H4n recorder and redo the interview with a different backdrop.
Little did I know when I started to edit the interview, the lapel mic audio actually worked! I honestly preferred her answers in this version but the backdrop of the final interview was a lot more pleasant in white balance and rule of thirds composition. In a way, the running around was actually worth it!
- Random Red Frames during post-production
For some reason, red frames would creep in out of nowhere within each footage. A low RAM on my laptop is a high possibility but another reason could be the cache. This tutorial helped me eliminate most of the red frames on the timeline:
Not to fret though, the red frames don’t appear on the exported footage.