Vanished Movie

I had a very disappointing experience a couple of days ago while I was working on a movie about a disease. I took passion to the next level and very sure I could finish it before our travel to Butuan City (originally traveling to Misamis in the town of Magsaysay).

Since I didn’t want to spend a lot of time working in the office, I brought the file at home but it turned out that files are hard-coded to the directory where the file was created. I created the movie in our office so when I moved the files at home; it looked for the directory of the files. It’s similar to ArcView in that sense. So every time you moved files to another computer, the pictures I used get lost and just won’t open anymore. This was my first movie with Cyberlink Power director and I didn’t know yet how to manage the files.

At the office, after a prolonged editing and a lot of undoing, it already looked like a real movie – complete with smart sounds on the background and narrations from start to finish. I thought it was excellent -for effort. This movie sapped my strength!I was packaging the movie to 95% when the software began to crash and errors popped up my screen.Poor me! I admit I was stupid on that one because I didn’t back up the file. My back-ups didn’t include that last segment where I completed the narration. I attempted to open the file thrice hoping that the vanished movie was just a joke.

Stupid joke!!!

It’s totally gone. Vanished! And I learned a lot, thank you.