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So far, we have 24;52 worth of rough cut scenes together for Anyone. I'm trying to force myself to live some life each day, but when I have a hard drive full of footage to be dealt with, very little else seems to matter. I tell anyone who will care to listen that I prefer the producer side of the equation, because it gets you off the hook for the shooting and directing part. I prefer the solitude of editing, and enjoy being the first one who gets to see the cuts of the film as it takes shape. I enjoy to put all the footage that we shot for a scene on an editing timeline, and watch the total run time for the sequence from from 15-30+ minutes' worth of raw footage turn into 45 great seconds or a great two minutes. When you work digitally you learn to work on the fly a lot more, and the side effect is a ton of raw footage, not all of which is gold. But you can shoot as many different things as you can imagine, and good shooting gets you enough to put the scene together.
We have a 130-page script shot, and are shooting for a movie around 90 minutes, so much of what we have shot will eventually be cut from the film. God forbid, even some of my scenes will probably hit the chopping block. But what we have looks pretty good overall, and once we start getting the audio ADRed, it will start to truly take shape.
The new computer is cutting up the footage pretty efficiently, and it's actually been a far easier process this time around. There is no capturing involved anymore...you just put an SD card into the computer, take the footage off of it, and then bring it right in and edit it. Most of the footage is coming in pre-rendered, and we have finally accomplished a world where we get our footage together as we shoot it without any real delay. If we recorded directly to the hard drive, it would be a few minutes faster, but I'll take this.
We're starting out with the stuff that we have that has the worst audio first. Some of it's not bad, but not usable, because the background audio changes too drastically. There were some scenes between me and Scott on a golf course, where you hear secedas (a very common southern summer sound) in the background for his lines, but not mine. We shot several scenes in restaurants and bars that were open for business as we shot, and that audio is rough as all getout. I haven't even messed with the stuff that we shot inside homes where we had more control, and I don't get to see it until all of the outdoor stuff and the location stuff is cut. The rest of it should be a cinch.
We're shooting to have a completed rough cut by Mid-December, and I'm pushing to be done a little quicker. We're trying to make some spring festival deadlines, and finishing the first cut a couple of weeks ahead of schedule suits me fine. It may be a pipe dream, but I reckon that if I push through, We'll get there.
We have a 130-page script shot, and are shooting for a movie around 90 minutes, so much of what we have shot will eventually be cut from the film. God forbid, even some of my scenes will probably hit the chopping block. But what we have looks pretty good overall, and once we start getting the audio ADRed, it will start to truly take shape.
The new computer is cutting up the footage pretty efficiently, and it's actually been a far easier process this time around. There is no capturing involved anymore...you just put an SD card into the computer, take the footage off of it, and then bring it right in and edit it. Most of the footage is coming in pre-rendered, and we have finally accomplished a world where we get our footage together as we shoot it without any real delay. If we recorded directly to the hard drive, it would be a few minutes faster, but I'll take this.
We're starting out with the stuff that we have that has the worst audio first. Some of it's not bad, but not usable, because the background audio changes too drastically. There were some scenes between me and Scott on a golf course, where you hear secedas (a very common southern summer sound) in the background for his lines, but not mine. We shot several scenes in restaurants and bars that were open for business as we shot, and that audio is rough as all getout. I haven't even messed with the stuff that we shot inside homes where we had more control, and I don't get to see it until all of the outdoor stuff and the location stuff is cut. The rest of it should be a cinch.
We're shooting to have a completed rough cut by Mid-December, and I'm pushing to be done a little quicker. We're trying to make some spring festival deadlines, and finishing the first cut a couple of weeks ahead of schedule suits me fine. It may be a pipe dream, but I reckon that if I push through, We'll get there.