Day 33

aha talk about a lack in sense of urgency. i'm feeling the strain now.

a large part of today was spent on transferring the videos and all from jen's laptop to a computer in the 3D lab. a few problems cropped up, such as jen's com not being able to put any data into shu's hard disk (we tried on about another 3 more hard disks and it all turn out the same). apparently it was because the hard disk is in the wrong format...or not mac compatible or something. aha just a few days ago i was writing about hoping that no problems like having the "wrong format" or something pops up...but man it did. -.-

Luckily when we tried apple/sarah's hard disk (they could use it with their mac), it could work!! :D but it took us over 2 hours just to transfer everything to the computer. i felt really bad that apple had to wait for us to transfer the videos (we only finished transferring at 7.30pm!) before she could go off. so really...thank you many many apple and jing yuan for waiting!!

while transferring, the whole group picked out 3 songs from our list of song selections. one for opening, one for the content (i'm removing the singing part to minimise distraction from our speech), and lastly one for the ending. we also picked out the footages we wanted (the earlier footage which we shot back in pre-production stage) so that we won't waste time...which we already are wasting with all these stupid transferrings. :[ shu had a problem with the animated words on the fast-motion boards but she managed to get it done by today and so i got that and the credits from her. jen's "still-picture video" (aha contradicting much) had pictures in the wrong size, and it was only noticed after it was exported. so she has to resize all the pictures! :O kala left at around 8 or 9pm and then shu left after that. jen stayed till pretty late at around 10plus but adebrudder and me stayed till 11plus to try and piece whatever we have at the moment together. there are still several footages left out of the video but we have no choice but to leave it for tomorrow.

another problem we had was the length of the video...all our footage are not even included yet but we realised that it was over 13 minutes already!! so we had to cut several parts of the interview out...and we probably have to fast forward several parts as well.

Afer that, i brought home the audio (speech) from the videos. We cannot use the separated audio which we recorded using the compressor mic after all! :[ there's almost an hour's worth of audio clips to go through and i dunno which part of the audio track goes with the selected video footage!
we currently don't have enough time to check which audio portion would be in sync with the video! so in the end, i had to take audio from the video. :[ it has more buzzing noise and this high pitched humming...i don't know how to get rid of the hummmm unfortunately...ahh well...

there's a lot to be accomplished tomorrow. hopefully we can get it done in time for the transferring...which i somehow doubt we would be able to. rendering would already take up a huge amount of time...ahh man i guess we'll just have to "make it work"!! *suddenly thinks of project runway* oorigh i gotta go sleep man...damn tired. aha man this have got to be my longest post to date! *is amazed with self*