Converting the Footage

Currently I am converting all the HD footage that's on my hard-drive to be able to edit, without losing all quality in the footage itself. Chris, the editing teacher has told me that by doing this, there will be no loss in the quality and overall the process of editing will be more fluent and fast.

The reason I'm converting all the footage is because we experienced a problem whilst putting together a rough edit; the footage on the timeline appeared pixelated and the quality was poor.


The following couple of pictures show the process i'm undertaking to convert the clips. The process itself is incredibly time-consuming; I've been sat here for around 3 hours now waiting for the footage to convert. One of the reasons to why
it is taking so long is probably because we're importing the footage off a USB hard-drive.

The following couple of pictures show the process i'm undertaking to convert the clips. The process itself is incredibly time-consuming; I've been sat here for around 3 hours now waiting for the footage to convert. One of the reasons to why

it is taking so long is probably because we're importing the footage off a USB hard-drive.

On another note, Alice has given me a structure she wants me to follow for the edit. I'll upload the small document at a later date.

Once the footage has been converted, we will be left with the original footage as well as the converted footage.
I have downloaded and installed the software I'm using on the iMac onto my laptop, however for an unknown reason the options I need to be able to convert the footage are not there, meaning currently, I cannot continue to convert this footage  overnight at home...