Editing the Commercial

   On October 25th, our group came into class with the mindset that we were going to edit our commercial. All of us got to class a couple minutes before the bell rang to watch our takes. We wanted to ensure that we had everything that we needed and that we didn't need to film any more videos. Thankfully, Amy has an SD card, making the process of importing the videos easier. We successfully imported the videos with more ease than one who does not acquire their own card. I was checking out the camera, it's bag, and a tripod, assuming that we would have to re-film certain clips of our commercial. While I was doing this, Emiliano was working on trying to import the videos on the file into Pinnacle studios. When I arrived with the equipment, I was pretty frustrated because I thought that my group members were distracted and weren't focusing. I, however, was wrong.
   After each attempt of trying to import the takes, a message would pop up. It would inform us that we would have to log into Pinnacle Studios. This was unusual as Pinnacle Studios was already an app available on the computer desktop. We called over Mrs. Cats so that she would we able to help us. She put in the username and password in order to let us attempt to start editing. When we then tried once again, the same message appeared and we realized that we wouldn't be able to get past this one part. Unfortunately, every other "functioning" computer was already taken so we thought that we would have to wait for another group to finish editing. I put quotes around functioning because any computer in the room that has internet, regardless of any another issues it attains, is considered as working. The computers that we are provided in this classroom are from 2008. This means that they are extremely slow and tend to glitch often.
   Our group tried to think creatively as to how we could import the videos. Emiliano tried a multitude of attempts before I decided to see if my previous notes from importing our takes would assist us in any way. I got my paper and sat down beside Emiliano. I re-read every single direction that I wrote down and yet we still could not seem to find a way that would allow us to start editing. Desperation starting to hit all of us, we called over Mrs. Cats. After a couple of minutes, she came over and tried to import the videos but she also was not able to. She became tired of re-trying the same technique that she had taught us so she went for a different approach. Mrs. Cats highlighted all of the takes and dragged them to Pinnacle Studios. Normally, this would have worked, but in this case it did not.   Mrs. Cats explained to our group that she didn't want us to learn how to import our clips this way because she didn't want to show us shortcuts. Rather, she wanted us to learn how to import our videos the traditional way. Mrs. Cats continued to try her own techniques of importing videos but none of them worked. A while passed and we were able to hear complaints from other groups. As I listened closer, the majority of the class was experiencing the same problem as us and were not able to start editing. Today was supposed to be the day that our group finished editing and submitted the commercial however, the problem still remains. Now, the entirety of the class is simply hoping that laptops are given to us with Pinnacle Studios installed to go back to working on the commercial.