Difficulties We Faced

The biggest problem we have faced so far, is not in the editing of the video, it is not in the production of the video, it was however in the uploading of the video onto a MacBook Pro. The video camera we used was a Vado HD, which is a handheld high resolution camera. However, due the nature of this camera, the video files uploaded in an AVI format. Unfortunately for us, iMovie does not support AVI format video clips. We could watch the clips through QuickTime, but we could not upload them to iMovie, meaning that no editing could be done. This proved a major problem to us as we tried for hours to try and convert them somehow on the Mac without any additional software.
However, this proved impossible. We then proceeded to search the internet for converter software that would allow us to convert the movie from an AVI format into a more recognisable format such as MP4.
However here we faced another problem. Around 80% of the converters that were available were either software that costed quite a bit of money, some reaching up to £40. We thought that this would be foolish to purchase for the small amount of time that we would be needing the software. After even more hours of downloading free software and testing it out we eventually found a couple of different softwares that allowed us to convert the AVI format movies into MP4.
However, the software that we were initially using (HandBrake) took excessive amounts of time to convert into the correct format. These were hours that we simply did not want to waste. So we proceeded to download a converter software from the Mac App store. This proved extremely useful as it free and fast.
However, unlike HandBrake, we could not convert the video clips in bulk. This meant that we had to continually add individual posts into the software to convert them. This was tiresome, but it proved phenomenally quicker than the bulk converting software.