2006 has been quite an amazing year, especially considering that I hadn’t really started out with any major intentions beyond getting Secret Thoughts of Angels finished.
Highlights of the year for me were:
2007 promises a lot of hard work, but I think it will all be worth it. Ken is very keen to get Greetings finished ASAP, so that’s my primary concern for the first month or two, along with trying to complete my screenplay.
Then we should be able to return to Tolerance and work on that – it would be nice to have both films done and dusted by the end of May. I’m really hoping I can get to Cannes this year, but everything’s very much up in the air at the moment, so we’ll have to wait and see.
This week has proved quite productive – I’ve finished logging the 20 hours of audio for Greetings and now I’m going through the script marking up where the takes are should I need them later.
I’ve also been struggling to get the current edit from Premiere Pro into Final Cut and I’ve kind of had to admit defeat. FCP just doesn’t like the EDL that Premiere creates (so much for industry standards!). It understands the sequence cut points and the length of each clip, but it will not read the in and out points of each clip, so every clip resets back to the first frame.
This isn’t a huge issue as the primary task is to fix the sound, which will mean visiting each clip and checking the quality of the audio and replacing it with the DAT audio where necessary. I’ll probably tinker with the edit anyway, but at least I have something to work with and I’m not starting from scratch, which would probably set the whole project back a month or two more.
It’s going to be a long, uphill struggle this one…