Final Final Cut

Whoops, I didn't realize it's been two weeks since i last posted. Sorry. Things are moving along. Here's a recap.

We got final cut up and running on tapia's computer, all though it took a little bit of trying. Hopefully it'll be the "Final" Final Cut system we work on. it's working well. I've made the sound project files and we've been working on them as much as we can. it took a few days to get the project files put together correctly and to add all the ADR to the new time lines. We had some confusion at first with time codes and beats but it got resolved. The equalizing is working much better than i thought it would, which is a relief because i'm glad something is going better than i thought it would :). we've even started dabbling a little with mixing some room tones and sound effects in. but not much.

Sound can get a little boring so we switched for a day and did color correction. It looks like we're going to do all of the color correction through final cut instead of trying to do it through another program like Color. My reasoning for this, and Grady agreed, was that working in soundtrack has been such a pain that adding another software application with another learning curve would be just too much. Final Cut's features should work just fine for what we're doing. I've emailed Antonio about it to see what his opinion about the whole thing is, plus i realized i might be messing with his effects shots if i go color correcting so i want to make sure we're working in sync with each other. 

I did some research on gun shots in movies (just watched movies with gun shots in them) and was amazed to find that the effects looked very very similar to what Antonio had done for MH. I emailed him with a few changes and he sent me the files i asked for so i can pick the best effect shot for the scene. Haven't had time to really analyze them yet but i will next week.

Tom responded to me and said that he was going to start working on the movie early last week. I have yet to hear from him so i emailed him tonight about it.

I emailed a band i'm interested in working with last week. no one responded so i emailed all the members on the website tonight. hopefully they'll get back to me.

I heard from Frankie about the posters. He said he'd get something to me by the end of the weekend, but then emailed me Sunday saying that he had some unanticipated things come up and couldn't get me anything. he said hopefully by the end of this week. i'm glad he emailed me to let me know. I'm anxious to see something though.

i've decided to install Adobe Premiere on My laptop so that when the movie is done, or when i can't be at tapia's i can work on the trailer(s) from home. i'm excited to start doing those sorts of things.

I spent a few hours a couple nights ago going through old emails collecting names for the credits of the film. that was fun. looking at all the old emails flooding back from i was in prep and deep in production. memories. i'm sure it will be fun to read this blog when it's done too.

My cousin's ex said that it's fine to keep using his services for the movie for free. YAY!

I bought new glasses. They should be done next week. Hopefully i'll see better :) 

That's about it for today. Thanks for reading!