My first experimental project involved taking a portable recording device to different locations to capture sounds for a sound library. This proved to be a lot of fun, it is incredible what a high level of sound resolution we were able to achieve. But unfortunantly our group was not too technically savy and although our most talented editor remembered to set our scratch disks in Final Cut Pro and taught the rest of us how to do it, she did not remember to save the edited files.
By the time we realized that all our sounds were lost in cyber-space, we had wiped the external hard-drive of the sounds and had returned the sound equipment. This forced us to wait for the sound equipment yet again (special thanks to the technical staff of UNCW!) and start over with new sounds.
This experience, while it was a bit stressful and frustrating taught me several things: I did not even know about scratch disks in Final Cut Pro and was even uncomfortable with the whole saving process. I also realize that when dealing with technology you should check and double check things before you throw-away the origional files.
(More later: I am going to work with another student on Final Cut Pro!)
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