Created with Adobe Firefly and Photoshop by Danica Do

Digital Portfolio Update

Now that we are finishing up our first project, it's time to complete our My Favorite Things page on our Google Site and get it published!

Once you have the go-ahead to export your full version of the My Favorite Things video, it's time to display that video on your portfolio website. We don't need YouTube, now that you can upload that video to your special DO NOT DELETE folder. You can replace this video with a better version if you make improvements - just make sure you remove the old one and re-instert the video into your web page.

Portfolio Video Player

To make your video playable on your Portfolio, it must be added using the Insert --> Drive option on Google Sites and navigating to your new DO NOT DELETE folder. We haven't published our site yet, but you can preview what it will look like and test it out for yourself.

Once you see your video playing on the preview of your Portfolio page for this project, you'll need to make sure you are writing about this project. Explanations of the different steps of this project, links to the software used, descriptions of what difficulties you overcame and what you liked least and best about the whole thing... the text is just as important as the images and video. Even the advanced search settings on Google and how we documented the URL sources could and should something you are sharing with the visitors to your site.

Publish Your Portfolio

It's time to take your Portfolio live! We need to be orderly about your web addresses since there are so many to manage, so it will follow a pattern. Find your code on the 2023 Portfolio Page, copy it, then paste it after clicking on the blue Publish button. Your code will become a link on that page and it MUST open your home page.

What is the "Code"?

In order to make sure we have no duplicate web addresses, we are using your class period, the computer number where you sit, the current year and your initials. You don't have to figure out what yours is supposed to be - just copy it from the big 2023 portfolio page.

Final Step

You never know when you will want to re-export a corrected / modified version of this project, so make a backup of it that doesn't rely on OneDrive using the Project Manager. You'll upload your final video and a compressed Zip archive of your project for the last part of our My Favorite Things project. Whew!

Archive Your Project Files

It's not hard to "break" your project unless you create a proper archive of the project and asset files. Premiere has a Project Manager that packs everything into a nice neat folder you can then "Send To" a compressed archive. This turns your folder with recipes and ingredients into a single Zip file you can easily upload to your DO NOT DELETE folder, as well as the last GC assignment for this project.

Project
Manager Settings

In case the video is hard to see, I've included a large snip of the settings I used when creating my backup copy of my project.

IF IT DOESN'T WORK...

Check your file names - they are either too long or have "special" characters in them that are preventing the folder from being compressed into a Zip file. 


First, check to make sure you don't have an Autosaved file with a long string of characters in the Premiere project file name. Simply use File --> Save As and save it again with todays date code and without all the extra characters. Make sure it's located in your original VIDEO project folder, not down deep in an autosave nest. If you made a linked After Effects background, it may also have all those extra characters and need to be cleaned up - use the method below if that happens.

Use Google Drive to Compress

If you can't get Windows to compress the folder made by Project Manager, just have Google do it instead. You upload the folder to Google Drive, then turn around and download it again. Drive will zip it all up together for you!

The Windows compressor is very picky - and we can't always find the characters in the file names that is causing the error. However, you can check through your image file names. You may need to expand your asset box to be very wide and expand the file name column to be extra wide as well in order to see the whole thing. Since Project Manager will rename the real files to whatever is in your asset box (officially your Project panel) if you want it too, rename anything here that looks suspicious and it won't be a problem when you zip up the results.


File names from the internet can be pretty weird - from now on we won't keep the original name when we save the images since some of these problems are cropping up because of a @,!,&/% symbol. ;-)

Problem-Solving Issues

File names can be too long and have "strange" characters in them. When you rename them to something simpler, Premiere may not know where the image went. Here's how to solve those problems!