Yesterday was the screening for "Zealot", the new short made by Ms Chng Bee Hwee and myself. Audio and everything finally came together. The only problem was the contrast of the screen - totally off by a mile. At the AVID workstation we have 2 screens (unless you sit at this other one), one shows a really light version of what you're editing, another shows how it's supposed to look like on a True HD screen. So all was supposedly well.
Then yesterday happened. The TV screen downstairs is configured differently. But everything seems better than what was initially exported. My goodness, that would have been a complete disaster. Not that the film was fantastic or anything.
Otherwise, it was bloody fun filming with pals. Good times with ol' buddy ol' pals. I guess it's time now to begin studying for the exams.
Sorry for the lack of updates about things that have happened in between, but that's cause I've been spending too much time in the AVID suites just going crazy trying to work with the clips that don't screw up. All in all, I think we did a pretty good job with all the disasters falling from video-editing skies.
For example,
E. Bee Hwee, delete the sequences we don't need. I think we didn't use any of those right.
Bee Hwee proceeds to delete one or two which are enough. And goes on to delete the rest.
E. Uh, Bee Hwee are, can stop deleting already. Eh, stop. Don't need to delete that one.
Erwin looks at another screen in which the clip that was being used for editing has been wiped off the screen. Bee Hwee ignores Erwin and continues her cleaning frenzy.
E. Uh. Bee Hwee, you just deleted our stuff.
Bee Hwee snaps out of her stupor and looks at me bewildered.
I decide to terminate our friendship before leaving for home, several contingency plans of how to work through this in time for the next day's screening running through my head.
I decide that I WANT TO DIE.
Then I see that last glimmer of hope. ONE CLIP, renamed earlier by me ("FINAL", how apt), escaped Bee Hwee's mad culling, because it wasn't named like the others.
Salvation never tasted so sweet.
Then yesterday happened. The TV screen downstairs is configured differently. But everything seems better than what was initially exported. My goodness, that would have been a complete disaster. Not that the film was fantastic or anything.
Otherwise, it was bloody fun filming with pals. Good times with ol' buddy ol' pals. I guess it's time now to begin studying for the exams.
Sorry for the lack of updates about things that have happened in between, but that's cause I've been spending too much time in the AVID suites just going crazy trying to work with the clips that don't screw up. All in all, I think we did a pretty good job with all the disasters falling from video-editing skies.
For example,
E. Bee Hwee, delete the sequences we don't need. I think we didn't use any of those right.
Bee Hwee proceeds to delete one or two which are enough. And goes on to delete the rest.
E. Uh, Bee Hwee are, can stop deleting already. Eh, stop. Don't need to delete that one.
Erwin looks at another screen in which the clip that was being used for editing has been wiped off the screen. Bee Hwee ignores Erwin and continues her cleaning frenzy.
E. Uh. Bee Hwee, you just deleted our stuff.
Bee Hwee snaps out of her stupor and looks at me bewildered.
I decide to terminate our friendship before leaving for home, several contingency plans of how to work through this in time for the next day's screening running through my head.
I decide that I WANT TO DIE.
Then I see that last glimmer of hope. ONE CLIP, renamed earlier by me ("FINAL", how apt), escaped Bee Hwee's mad culling, because it wasn't named like the others.
Salvation never tasted so sweet.
