For the editing part of our Music Video, we have been confronted with a big problem. All of our video clips which we shot with our own camera shoots in MOV files, and when we tried to import this into Adobe Premiere but we were unsuccessful because the software doesn't support this. Originally, we were going to use iMovie on the eMac, but we found that it was taking quite a long time to actually import the videos onto there because of the hardware of the eMac was older and slower than the PCs.
To overcome this problem we decided to convert the files in to MPEGs which we could use on Adobe Premiere although this was successful at first because of the amount of clips we had it slowed down my user area. I had to ask for more space on my area which initial made it quicker, however we found that during saving, loading files and rendering the clips the program was very slow and crashed from time to time.
We then decided to use the eMac with the MPEG files which although thought would be compatible with the eMac and quicker to load than the MOV files the eMac did not recognise Eleanor's external hard drive. We then put all the clips on to a memory card and used a card reader to upload them onto the eMac. This worked fine however the clips would not load which we discovered was due to the eMac not being compatible with the newer MPEG format because its an older system.
Therefore we have needed to convert the MOV files again to MPEG files with a DVD pal format which we will use in Adobe Premiere. To overcome the issues with the program running too slowly we have saved the scratch disk files in Premiere Elements to Eleanor's hard drive which has a bigger memory than our user areas. This should speed things up because the clip files, rendering files, scratch disk files and whole project will run off the external hard drive.
Hopefully once our files have been converted we can start using Adobe Premiere Elements more quickly.
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