Ups and Downs

I thought I was doing well for a while there…

I’d managed to complete the grading of Greetings using the fabulous new Color program, Denis the DP has come round and given it a thumbs up and I’d set the whole lot to render. It had taken about eight hours. I then went to the magic Send to Final Cut Pro menu option.

Color crashed.

I tried again.

It crashed again.

Nothing I can do will make Color send the XML back to FCP. I did a bit of reading up and it would seem that Color tends to choke on long sequences with a lot of cuts. I guess it’s my fault as I should really have edited Greetings in smaller sub-sequences. And I should possibly have turned of the Anamorphic switch before sending it to Color. So we live and learn.

Now I have the unenviable task of manually inserting 712 graded clips over the tops of the old ones in the FCP timeline.

My ire has been tempered somewhat by the good news that I have officially (as far as I’m concerned) finished the first draft of my first full length screenplay.

It’s more than a little ropey around the edges and needs some serious rewriting, but it’s there. 110 pages, on the nose. And very proud I am of it too.