Issues I encountered whilst producing my first draft.

After the first day of filming, I took the SD card from the camera, placed it into the slot on the computer, and then copied the files onto my memory stick because this is portable, enabling me to transfer the data it holds to any computer (at home or at college) that I wish - although I had planned to use the Mac editing suite in college to edit my video. 

 After copying the files, I deleted the original ones from the SD card. This became an issue when I realised that the files were in fact incompatible with Mac software. I had assumed that .MTS files would be supported as it is a standard video format, however It would not automatically convert to an imovie - compatible file unless I transferred the files directly from the film camera, into imovie. This was an issue because I couldn't complete my video without it. 

It would seem logical to plug in the camera, and convert the files this way. However, I had already deleted the files. Instead, I used google to find out the best way to convert files.

The following screenshot shows the website I used giving a free download to an app which has the ability  to convert files such as..

"MTS to AVI, MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, Divx, Xvid, FLV, etc" - (from the website)

This helped me to overcome any file formatting issues.
However, the more a video is processed, the lower the camera quality. This means that the clips that had to be re-formatted are of slightly lower quality, and appear more pixelated than the ones gained from a different days filming.