Technical issues and workarounds

Through the course of the preliminary task we ran into a few problems that impeded our progress, below are the list of issues and the workarounds we used to overcome them

-Issue with writing posts in blogger
At the start of the project we experienced an issue with Blogger in that we simply were unable to type when we tried to write a new post, however we started writing posts from home instead and were eventually able to use Blogger from school by using a workaround to get past the restriction of Blogger by RM safety net that only seemed to affect Google Chrome.

-Issue with camtasia and MP4 files
Unfortunately editing was held back due to the fact that the version of Camtasia I had been using to edit the video would render the MP4 clips used as entirely black, there would therefore be several moments  of the footage that would simply be lost. The initial workaround for this was to convert the mp4's to a different file format (.wmv's I believe) however this came at the cost of audio, which was not ideal so I had eventually been able to figure out that by converting the original .mts files into .avi's I could continue to edit via Camtasia, this would of course come at the cost of a lower resolution ( 360p as opposed to 720p which I had initially been aiming for) however I felt that this was a small price to pay in order to actually have something to show for the preliminary task.

More will be added to this list in the future as and when they arise.

Written by: Trent Nash