My experience with the Olympus digital camera was different. It was weird working with something that was not actually a camcorder, to video tape something. It was a new experience for me to have to actually convert the video into the right format in order to edit the film. With a regular camcorder I never had to do that. I think I was able to implement my image capturing strategies to an extent with this camera. I was able to record what I wanted but I noticed that with this camera I was not allowed to zoom as much as I am able to with a camcorder. In an ideal world my camera of choice would zoom in and out as much as I wanted it to. It would almost be extendable so I didn’t have to work. It would work like a telescope. It would also come with lighting. The Olympus doesn’t have a light on it, so I had to make sure that it was the right time of day to capture what I wanted to capture.
The software I chose to use was Windows Movie Maker. I chose this because I am most familiar with the program. It’s very easy to use but is also very basic at the same time. It does not have many features as other programs like finalcut pro so there is only a little you can do when editing, but it still helped me accomplish what I wanted to do my film, which was cut clips into many pieces and change the colors around. I might try to experiment with some other program in the future.