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Issues while Editing my Music Video

 So, since my last blog, quite a bit has happened. I managed to lose all my progress on my video. Now, let me explain. I was editing my video and decided to render it so I would be able to watch it without having to let it load. So, as I'm waiting for the video to render, a message pops up that my computer is about to die. Usually, I have a couple of minutes to plug it in, but it ended up dying right away and basically reset. I immediately plug my computer in and turn it back on. As I open up Premiere, my work on the music video was completely gone. I was completely shocked and upset. I started looking up how to recover my work because all that it said I had done was import my files into the program. All of the tedious editing to the lyrics was gone. I'm looking through every file on my computer, every possible place where it could be. The reason I hadn't saved a separate copy and knew where it was was due to the fact that I was relying on the auto-save feature, but I didn't know where they saved to. After what felt like hours, I gave up on looking through my files and tried to distract myself from the fact that I would have to redo all that work. I was starting to come to terms with that idea, now that I had some background knowledge and a more solid idea of what I wanted to do, I would be able to create a better video. However, my dad, who is quite tech-savvy, had just come home from work. I asked him to see if he could look around and try to find the autosaves. Thankfully, he was able to find the files and I didn't have to redo all the work. Going forward, I'm definitely not relying on only the auto-saves anymore. Cue more consistent saving so something like this doesn't happen again.

I'm just glad I was able to find all those pesky files!



Until next time, Danniella Miller signing off :)



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