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This video file was made by <names> in the course of roughly seven days and 30 hours.
It took about fifteen hours to watch the footage and determine what scenes we wanted to use, and then about five hours to rip(get) the DVDs to my computer, encode(make) the files into a format that WMM(Windows Movie Maker) could read, burn them on a CD, and bring them to school.

Then, it total, it took ten hours to edit using Windows Movie Maker on Pope Highschool's labtops.
In the course of five days, we completed the video and lost it four times. The first time, we were able to export(save) the video onto the computer, but ran out of class time to burn it to a disc, so simply left the file on the computer. The next day, the wmv file was deleted, and the WMM project file(storyboard and such) was corrupted(couldn't open it).
Thus, we started over from scratch on a desktop computer, using Windows Movie Maker 1, and getting halfway through. The H(student) drive was unaccessible at this point(the server was down) so we saved it to the "My Videos" folder. The next day, the file was deleted again.

Starting fresh once more back on a laptop, we were able to completely finish the video file on Wednesday, three days after the official deadline, by skipping all classes after second period to work on it. When we exported(saved) the movie, the file was corrupted(we couldn't open it). Trying to save it multiple times with no success, we decided to save the project file to a disc and bring the project to <my> house to edit and export instead.

On the trip home, the computer did not have Windows Movie Maker 2, and so we had to install it on <my> computer(which took several hours). Once there, we imported the project and found that half the files(the titles you see inbetween scenes) would not load, and could not be replaced. We did these one more time from scratch, which somehow made the movie longer(we don't know why).

Finally, we exported the video file one more time, and it worked! However, three of the last titles did not show up for some innane reason. We imported(put in) the video into WMM again and re-added the titles, and re-exported the video to what you see now.

If we don't get a 100 on the project, we will be pissed.

WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER SUCKS!

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PS: We forgot to put what song we used for the credits because we redid the project so many times.
The song is Muse's "Bliss" from the Origin Of Symmetry Album.