Putting It All Together
I used to think Audacity was my friend, but when it came to editing the soundbites for my slide show, I realized that the program had just been whispering sweet nothings into my ears this whole time. When I needed Audacity to work the most, it decided to be completely bratty and crash over and over and over just to make me angry.
Seriously though, when I was editing the soundbites, Audacity crashed about four times and it really upset me because it had never done that before. Granted, I was working with pretty big sound files, but there seems to be no way to save your work on that program. To get through it, I had to edit and export a bunch of tracks separately and then tack them all together at the end into one long mp3. It took about 2 hours longer than it should have. One in Soundslides, everything ran smoothly.
Filming my subject was difficult only because both of us have pretty full schedules. We tried to get into one of his old venues, the Punchline, but it was closed so we had to film outside it. Also I filmed the entire thing in night-vision, so my subject Jeffrey Pollack looks somewhat terrifying. Using Final Cut Express didn’t give me any problems once I remembered all the nuances of the program, and it surprisingly did not take very long to render and export. I was actually expecting the video portion of the assignment to take the longest and be the most difficult. Thankfully, it was also pretty smooth sailing.
