Overall, the filming and the editing went absolutely fine until the final step, which was exporting the movie to a .avi file, because Adobe After Effects doesn't save straight to one, but saves a project file instead (due to the nature of the program - you create several compilations, then choose which ones to export to video after editing them properly).
The problem was that the video files that the camera we were using, .MTS files, aren't properly supported by the version of After Effects that we have (CS4). During the entire process, the video files work perfectly, but when you try to export them to a video file the result is a jittering mess of frames that just wouldn't be cohesive at all. To combat this, we tried converting all of the files to .AVI and then replacing them in the program, but every time we tried to do this the program crashed.
The editing itself, prior to rendering the movie, took around 5 hours. We didn't get to the point where we would have to do the editing again until 5AM, by which point there simply wasn't enough time to do it, coupled with the average time it takes for a movie even as short as 2 minutes in order to render (normally over night), we weren't going to meet the deadline.
Deadline extended until Monday 13th February
Deadline extended until Monday 13th February
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