The first edit of Alligator is now complete and in the hands of Ken, who has, in the meantime asked me if I’ll help out complete the sound work on his feature film, a sort of horror/thriller/sci-fi type affair called ‘Greetings’.
I’m still trying to ascertain how much has been done on the film so far. There’s a fairly tight edit and what seems to be half worked on sound. The whole project has rumbled on for a very long time, over 18 months, so it will be good to help put some closure on the project.
I’ve been thinking about getting a new editing system as the one I’m using is, well, a little on the shaky side to say the least. I did a bit of research and was surprised to find that a decent Apple Mac with Final Cut Pro Studio and Shake is significantly less than a decent spec PC and Avid and Fusion (I couldn’t even find a price for Fusion, but I guess it’s not cheap).
I’m a big Avid fan, but as it won’t run on the new Intel Macs until they release a universal Binary (hopefully soon), it’s still cheaper to cross over to Mac (and I get to run Vista as well with BootCamp).
And at the end of the day, I love Macs.
Problem is my car went on the blink last week – so funds for new editing systems kinda went out the window rather rapidly. Bah!
So, if anyone is feeling generous – I’ve reactivated my donation button. It’s shameless, yes, but if anyone does feel like tipping tuppence my way, they’d not only be helping me out, they’d be helping Admiral Piett too (in a roundabout kinda way). And they will get a credit in my feature which I’m going to make next year (hell, you can come and be an extra if you want).
Onwards and upwards…