On Saturday morning, I was editing my trailer and I started having problems with my laptop. It kept shutting down every five or ten minutes, then taking another five or ten minutes to turn back on again. This was really frustrating and I didn't know why it was happening - it had starting happening throughout the week, except it only happened once every one or two days, not once every five or ten minutes. I checked my storage to see if this was the problem and it said I had over 30GB free, which isn't a lot but I thought it was enough for my laptop to at least function normally. I moved another 20GB from my laptop onto my external hard drive, which left me with 50GB free.
I decided to leave my laptop alone on Saturday and come back to it at night to see if anything had improved. After I went back on it again at night, I was editing for about half and hour and everything seemed fine with my laptop. But after that, my laptop started freezing and turning off again. After a little while of this, my laptop turned off and wouldn't turn back on. After trying to turn it back on for ages, I left it and came back to it in the morning to find out that it still wouldn't turn on.
This meant that I was unable to complete my editing over the weekend, which was really frustrating as I was almost done and I only had a couple of colour corrections to do. I explained my problem to Mr Andrews on Monday morning and I was given an extension until the next day which allowed me to complete my editing with a laptop I borrowed from school.
I was so so happy that I had saved a copy of my Final Cut library, as well as all of my footage onto my external hard drive so that I didn't have to start my editing all over again, and only had a tiny bit to complete. Even if I hadn't saved my library onto my external hard drive, I still had all of the footage saved so I would have been able to restart. I can't imagine how stressful it would be if I hadn't kept a backup of anything. After this complication, I have learnt the importance of always keeping a backup of all of my work as anything can happen to my laptop at anytime.
I decided to leave my laptop alone on Saturday and come back to it at night to see if anything had improved. After I went back on it again at night, I was editing for about half and hour and everything seemed fine with my laptop. But after that, my laptop started freezing and turning off again. After a little while of this, my laptop turned off and wouldn't turn back on. After trying to turn it back on for ages, I left it and came back to it in the morning to find out that it still wouldn't turn on.
This meant that I was unable to complete my editing over the weekend, which was really frustrating as I was almost done and I only had a couple of colour corrections to do. I explained my problem to Mr Andrews on Monday morning and I was given an extension until the next day which allowed me to complete my editing with a laptop I borrowed from school.
I was so so happy that I had saved a copy of my Final Cut library, as well as all of my footage onto my external hard drive so that I didn't have to start my editing all over again, and only had a tiny bit to complete. Even if I hadn't saved my library onto my external hard drive, I still had all of the footage saved so I would have been able to restart. I can't imagine how stressful it would be if I hadn't kept a backup of anything. After this complication, I have learnt the importance of always keeping a backup of all of my work as anything can happen to my laptop at anytime.
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