A real rough cut done!
OK, so the festival deadline was Friday, and I did get a DVD shipped out, but I don’t think it was an actual working DVD. I couldn’t decide whether or not to submit, then did, then panicked and had to send something, so I threw that in the mail.
I was having massive technical problems, and it turns out I just needed to use a different setting in DVD Studio Pro to get the file compressed enough to fit on a DVD (I thought I had the setting correct but didn’t — ah, live and learn). It was a real headache, hectic and very, very frustrating.
I ended up trying to burn the DVD on double-layered discs for more memory space, but none of those DVDs worked. Sort of. I tried one, and it worked, then froze. Then when I re-played it, it didn’t work.
So I resent the Final Cut Pro file through Compressor again yesterday (which took all night to write), then when I tried to burn the DVD this morning, my disc drive wasn’t working. It won’t read anything now, I don’t know what happened. Frustration on top of frustration!
So I went to work and thought I would burn it on a Mac there, but that disc drive was damaged, as well. Grrrr. But I just came from Wade’s house, and he let me use his computer to burn the DVDs. And we watched it on his really nice, big-screen TV to make sure it works. And it did — beautifully.
And this is the first time I really got to sit and watch the whole thing all the way through. It really looks fantastic, and when I finish applying all the filters and color correction, it will look even cooler.
And hopefully Sergio will be able to do sound design, if I can get things to him in early January.
So, things are going better. I can take a deep breath now, then head back in for more work.
It’s so nice to have things work like they should. Hallelujah!
-r.
