If there's one thing I've learned from this project it's that as much as we benefit from it, technology can really suck. I'm gonna take this time to go on a little rant about all the things that "suck" about the technology I encountered throughout the course of this term. For starters wireless mics. Those little buggers cost us the better majority of a very well put together and informative interview that would have highly benefited our cause. Second was the trouble with renting equipment. It can't just be me who finds it really obnoxious that Oregon State can only rent cameras and equipment out for 48 hour time periods. How useful is that to anyone who wants to film anything outside of Corvallis. I mean, Corvallis is nice and all but sometimes the little town just doesn't have all that much to offer. Thirdly, it is extremely obnoxious not having a video editing capable computer of my own (which is the first thing on my list of things to buy this summer). It's nice spending countless hours hanging out in the lab with a bunch of people I don't know and all but I just can't do this forever. the most annoying part about working from the lab is the fact that anytime you leave your computer for the day you have to drag and drop all your work back onto the server. If we were just dealing with a couple of photographs or some word documents this would be no big deal but when the content is hours of video footage we're talking about hours of my life that I'll never get back. Working off the server brings me back to the days of dial up internet and how badly I never want to go back.
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