Video editing? Huh Finally....

First, photo editing then audio editing, and now, video editing. The challenge became harder and harder. When I first receive this task, I knew that this would be a tough task since it requires so many things to do. For the task, we were asked to be in group of five. The task was actually divided by three parts: 1st, download an episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance' from 8TV. 2nd, join all the parts (an episode contains some separated parts. ours have four parts) to form a video. 3rd, we had to extract performances from the whole episode, make them separated videos.

The task began with Husna downloaded the video. Alhamdulillah she managed to download them in a short time (one hour plus minus). Some of my friends spent about two hours to download all the parts of their episode. It was tiring.

Then, to join all the parts to form a single video, we need to convert them from FLV files to MPEG or VCD or WMV files so that they could be imported in Windows Movie Maker. All of us surfed the internet to find suitable converter to convert the video but none of us found any. It was diificult since most of the converters were trial and demo application. Using the trial version, the features were limited. We could only convert 50% of the video. Some converters advertise their product on my converted videos. There's so many problems in selecting useful converters. After 2 hours working on it, at last, I found a software which I could convert the video to MPEG file, and I did the converting for the group.

Then, move to the cutting process. At first, from what we understood, we had to extract all the performances, label all the performances, and join them in a single video. Then, we woke up early, met at the early of a morning, worked on it for several hours, but then, at night, we found that we were wrong. We did not have to label and join them in a video. The task just required us to cut and label them. That's all. The task for joining files was another task, not that one. Useless efforts. Huh =(

After finishing our work, we had to upload them in adec. Then came another problem when a person can only upload 3 files. We thought of it and I decided to zip all small size files (cut videos). I put them in respective folders, zipped them and upload them. Luckily at that time, there were three of us. We uploaded three files each and we managed to uploaded all the files after 5 hours. We did sleep at 4a.m.! Huh.. How tiring.

On that morning, all of us went back to home town, far from KL, far from each other, Kelantan, Johore, Kedah, Malacca, and Pahang. Then, I had a call saying that lecturer asked us to burn our work in DVD since most of the students could not upload their work in ADEC. The DVD was supposed to be submitted before Saturday but all of us were not in KL and we could do nothing about it. As the result, we did not manage to submit the DVD on time. Although we did not submit our DVD, we had successfully uploaded all the files in ADEC in time. After holidays, we met the lecturer and explained about it and ALHAMDULILLAH Pn Foziah accepted our work. Thanks for your kindness mam.