PROBLEM SOLVING

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A problem I have faced within my FEP has been difficulties with USBS.

When filming at the Brudenell social club and uploading the footage afterwards, it became apparent that my 126 GB memory stick, which had faithfully lasted me the better part of two years, had finally run out of space. I had managed to transfer all my b-roll over, but the 25-minute interview with the suckle band members was too large.

To rectify this, I ordered two 256 GB memory sticks for next-day delivery, one to complete my FEP with and the other to take to University with me when I progress. Something was evidently wrong with one; however, despite the large storage space, I am still unable to transfer the interview onto it; I get the alert that there is not enough space when out of the 256 GB, 190 GB is still free and available.

A few days later, when re-transferring footage from the Leeds Kirkgate market, it became apparent that the interview that was filmed there, I was also unable to load onto the new memory stick. I attempted to load both interviews to my Google Drive, and download the footage directly to my memory stick from there, however, the endeavour was fruitless, and the same alert, that disc space is full, appeared.

For the time being, the solution to this has been working off of the SD card and Memory sticks, respectively, having them both plugged in. SD card, when editing interviews down, the memory sticks are for the body of the product. While slightly tedious, editing this way had prevented any footage from corrupting or source information from being declared missing by Adobe Premiere Pro. 

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During the beginning of my editing, when using the college computers, it took 4 attempts to get Premiere Pro to load. After it finally decided to, there was approximately an hour's worth of peaceful editing, but after that, the audio disappeared. Nothing had changed, and yet the music, voice-over, and interviewees' voices were all no longer audible. The tracks were still there; however, when played had zero sound.

All other audio was working, however. When I played the music from its original file on the computer, it played fine, the voice over was the same. YouTube videos all had perfect sound to them, none muted.

Unplugging headphones and reinserting them didn’t change anything, nor did trying a new pair. Inputting it in different places on the pc also didn’t affect anything. Nor did changing the audio settings on the computer.

What solved it, upon guidance from tutor Lee, was changing the audio settings on Premiere Pro itself to play via headphones. Despite the fact that nothing had changed in between me editing with sound and me editing without, changing the settings allowed it to go back to normal.

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