Today we had some major problems we needed to fix in order for our edit to be complete. We needed to finalize the glitch edits we had created in After Effects, however when we ran through our film we realized that one of the glitches stopped moving about a minute in. This would be a major problem as we wanted it to continue moving throughout to have it's proper effect on the footage.
At first we looked to see if it was key framed to stop at any point, then looked at the duration and they both showed that it should continue running throughout. With the help of a technician, he recommended that we render the file as maybe the edit just couldn't keep up with the playback.
Once the film was rendered we watched it through and the glitch still wasn't moving. This was so frustrating as it was the final step to the film being finished, and it was becoming more of a complex problem than we thought, as we couldn't find a solution.
Eventually the technician came back with one final attempt to try and get it to move. He looked at the evolution settings of the fractal noise edit, and reset them. This made the glitch begin to move again throughout !! It was caused due to the equation we had entered previously, causing the effect to stop at a certain point. What seemed to be such a complex problem was solved with such a simple solution!
Finally we had to change the frame size of our project, as we realized that it was slightly too small and didn't fit the entire screen. This was easily changed in Adobe Premiere Pro, and then we just re-imported the main footage back into our Adobe After Effects composition.
We finished the edit by watching the whole film through once more, double checking that all the effects were working smoothly, and the film looked how we wanted it to. Then, once we were happy with it, we rendered the final edit.
Overall, I am really pleased with how the editing process went. I think because we had a clear plan of what we wanted to achieve, it made the whole process run so much smoother and allowed us to be more organised and focused. I am really pleased with the outcome of the film and how it looks, I think it really captures our idea of the digital overload and experimental film.
Alice and I made a great team and we are really proud of our film.
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