Chris came round to watch Voice of Silence, (new working title, Tolerance), and seemed muchly pleased with what I’d done. Daz has also watched it and given similar positive feedback, so I think we’re onto something good.

There’ll be a short break in proceedings while Daz disappears of on holiday and I edit Ken’s short film, but I think that’ll give it the breathing space it needs.

Strangely both Daz and I played the first track of Johann Johannsson’s new album, ‘IBM 1401, A Userís Manual‘ (the whole album is absolutely stunning) over the edit and it worked really well. So that’s given Daz some good cues where to head with the music.

I’ll also now sit down and watch the older 83 minute version which Chris says has some good things he’d like to keep. But the version I’ve done will be the working version we’ll move forward with.

I’d like to get the BetaCam tapes Chris has of Tolerance transferred to HDV. My machine seems quite happy with it. Might have problems with disk space there though – I’ll need at least 500GB (the Avid DNxHD files get quite big!).

I am enjoying editing HDV footage, the quality is immense. I love the way I can watch back the footage on my monitor at it doesn’t fit on the screen (and I’m running at 1600×1200!).

Chris is happy for Tolerance not to go back to 35mm unless absolutely necessary, I think he’d be happy just with a DVD release and HD version for festivals.

For now, though it’s onwards with Alligator…