The ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ task

This has to be the simplest, yet hardest thing to do. Simplest because what we were required to do was easy and very simple. We only need to use our skills in downloading and editing videos. The difficult part came when we were doing the task, we didn’t expect the unexpected.

We didn’t expect to have the videos that we were supposed to be downloaded to be of such a heavy size. Each one video had been in such a very big size. It took each of us almost two whole days to finish downloaded all the parts in one episodes. The fact that my own internet connection were down at the time almost turns me into a panic mode. It was the biggest success of my week that I manage to download all at due time.

In one of the task, we were required to use the HJ Split software. I was glad at first, because I had been using HJ Split for as long as I had remembered, and I was used to it. However, when we try to use it on the videos, we encounter the problem where we only manage to combine two of the videos, and not all. I am confused and frustrated by what happened at first, as I did not know what went wrong.

This lead me to do more research on HJ Split, it led me to understand the software more than I had ever did before. I research on the details of the software and finally realise the one thing that went missing in our attempt. Each of the videos needs to be in the same size, the same frequency and the same length for them to be able to combine together using the HJ Split. And realising that, I think it would be almost impossible for us to use the HJ Split for this task. So, as a solution, we used another software to combine all of the videos – the media movie maker. And the product is a success.

Now we came to the hardest part of the task – the uploading of the videos to adec.

When we try to upload the videos, we had used two whole days (from morning till night) and we used as many laptops as we can, and some of us also went to the cyber cafe while letting their laptops uploading the other parts of the videos. To no vain. Why?

I think one the reason is the same each time we face the difficulties to upload any of our tasks on adec. The reason would be because everyone was trying to upload all at the same time, causing the server to go down at times. I think I can blame it to ourselves, considering that if we had done the task sooner, we should have been able to upload the videos earlier than anyone else and the over-float of the server can be avoided. But then again, we have other reason why the videos cannot be uploaded as easily as we said it can.

The second reason is because the combined product was simply too heavy. We tried to keep the quality of the video as were required, but the end product exceeds more than 2 gigabytes. Trying upload each of the parts took us more than a day, what about the whole bunch of the parts in one compiled video. It almost seems impossible. No, it IS impossible. We tried to lessen the size of the product, we use all the software that we know of, but to no vain, because lessening the size of the video means degrading the quality of the video itself. And that were not allowed. I cannot thank Izian enough when she solve all the problems by saying that we only need to handle all the videos in one DVD. Of course there had been some problems regarding those who had went home, but at least, the task of handing up the task did not seem that impossible anymore.