jblum's Journal

Well, it's been one of those put-your-head-down-and-your-bum-up kinds of weeks, as Kate's mum would say. On the plus side, yesterday I did a bit of writing for the first time in ages... Angel Express has ground to a halt, but I'm beginning to have thoughts about that spec script again.

But my spare time has been taken up once again with Time Rift. Y'know, back when I first decided to do this DVD version, the one thing I was absolutely clear on was that I was not going to re-edit this thing from scratch from the raw footage. That would just be an insane amount of time -- much more sensible just to go back to the rough-cuts and save a couple of VHS generations. But the FX shots I'd do from scratch... and then there were the new pickup shots I was doing... and the final scene had such bad sound and needed a complete reconstruction anyway... and then there were just a few problem scenes where even the restored sound wasn't good enough, and I'd really get much better results from sound that hadn't already been fiddled with... and just a few shots where the generation loss meant the picture was too flickery... and now that I've fixed this scene and that scene, it'd look really odd if I don't clean up those few shots in between... and... and... and...

Well, the upshot is that now it looks like about a quarter of the story will have been recut from scratch. Yes, I'm a fool.

So I've basically spent the past week in a frantic blur of ripping and cutting, so I can get the last batches of assembled raw sound files to Aaron the Cleanup Guy before Kate puts her foot down and takes the VCR away from my computer. (Not just on general principles -- she needs it to watch a documentary for the story she's writing.)

But is it worth it? Well, see for yourself.( Read more... )

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