NMD302 WEEK12

At the final week, we finish all the projects and the final Darwin Festival DVD promotion. I was so proud of our Darwin Festival group. At the last class, everyone had a presentation to talk about their role in the production and the problems that they had overcome. Presentation in the final week is important to share the ways to solve problems and study skills. Because maybe one day the same problems will happen on me, I can solve it properly. Especially the problem happen in the area which I never touch before, it will enhance my knowledge in the future study. Such as DVD Studio, some students told about the Setting in this software.  That is important and even just to know it. Overview this semester, I got more experience on editing and camera handle skills. All of them will benefit for my future study. Thanks to Eric, he provides an opportunity for us to study with a real social (Darwin Festival) and outside class. I believe that will be a good experience for all of us.  

NMD302 WEEK11

Now, only one more week left in this semester. At this wee, we kept going on the final exporting part. firstly, Eric and we check the testing DVD. One problem was showed in the DVD that it has a short gap between starting and ending on the trailer video. We can hear the audio replay again around 3 seconds in this gap. Another thing we need to improve is that the video of Kimiss part and some details from editing. In order to solve the first problem, we looked back the idvd studio system. We try to find the reason that lead to the short gap. From the general setting, we found the duration of video and the setting differs from 3 seconds. So we set them to same and then the gap disappears. Even I am not proposing to do the DVD exporting part; I want to learn some basic knowledge about DVD studio from others. Such as how does the DVD studio works, how to add title on the catalog and how to export the video as a DVD. DVD exporting is the last part of the final part of the Darwin Festival, it is essential for the final product. Studying in different part is always benefit for me and advance my knowledge and study experience.

NMD302 WEEK10

This week, we move to the final part of Darwin Festival DVD. First of all, we collected all the events editing of Darwin Festival and put them together to be one whole Festival promotion. Even this part includes all the editing clips together, it is still need to correct and advance some parts by re-editing. Eric also supports us many suggestions and he points the parts which can be enhanced from editing for the real final product. Then we can improve from the editing every time and make it better and better. During my editing part time, I also watched some Final Cut Pro online tutorials for improving myself. Such as the using of color-correction that it is a great effect for editing. It makes the videos’ editing more fantastic and it also make it come true that it can be adjusted to a film looking for the videos. In my editing part- Kimisis, although the original clips are so dark without a enough lighting situation, color-correction gives me a chance to adjust the background color and make the dark visual much better. From the self study of online FCP tutorials, it gives me more knowledge of FCP and explains what we can edit with video and audios by using it.