Well, I finished the primary color correction and backed up all the raw media again to mail to a safe place. I now have audio editing, getting a little bit more ADR in the can and then secondary color correction. Probably in Color.
Also, I really, really, need a better looking theme for this page.
Stuck at work. City of the Living Dead is not an Oscar winner.
“You know that Dunwich was built on the ruins of the original Salem. The village of witches and heresy. And EVIL!”
“Yes, but can you tell us how to get there?”
This is not writing wasn’t intended as a comedic moment, but I think a film should be written this way.
So, I didn’t bring my computer today so I’m not able to work on anything. It occurred to me to post here and see if it would work.
I’m thinking of typing a running story here about what the production on teh film was like up to this point and all the problems I ran into during shooting.
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I’ve been in the house for the last 2 days doing none stop color correction and audio editing.
I’m very burned out and I will be taking a break.
Apple Color while being a “professional” piece of software lacks common and simple features that would make it worthwhile. Namely, if I have a piece of white, 18% gray, and black tape on the stupid clapboard, I should be able to chose them and set my white balance that way rather than push and pull knobs and levels for 30 minutes. It also doesn’t play well with ANYTHING that comes from FCP. Not filters, not layering on clip on another, not even cross fades. In short, Color sucks for primary color correction and simplicity. And I have used the color selections boxes in Color and after 30 minutes of color correcting two shots of the same scenes lighting using the same tape markers I still couldn’t get the colors to play ball 100%.
In short, I’m doing my Primary Color correction in FCP and then I might play with Color later to get closer to the look I want.
Also, Elastic Time in Pro Tools is way better than VocAlign.
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Deciding if I want to go with the Head mic that sounds like it’s coming from his radio or the boom mic that sounds like it’s coming from the room….
