Day 1 from the Online Suite
As Bryan reported yesterday on his blog, we had some serious technical issues getting ready for the online session. Final Cut bottomed out on us -- clips went missing, render files got corrupted, and basically nothing was reliable. By some miracle (named Kyle Henry) we were able to output all the necessary files. Now I'm here at MatchFrame LA working with Jeff, our online engineer, building the movie up from our original master tapes. It's great because now I can watch the footage on an Hi-Def monitor and see what it really looks like. For months we've been working with a low-res version of the film on a regular NTSC monitor.
Some of the files that we need are actually not here yet. They're on a plane from Austin that should be arriving around 11:30. So it's a little slow-going right now. There's not a whole lot we can do without those files. We've got a lot to do in the next 2 days so as soon as those files arrive we should be able to move very quickly.
I'm crashing at Brian McGuire's house while I'm here. He and good friend Alex Holdridge have formed a band and they were practicing last night. Another bit of news is that Alex is going to shoot another feature in January. It'll be a low-budg, run-n-gun affair shot on the new HDV camera based on a script that Alex has been working on for about six months. Brian and Alex will act in it, Robert Murphy is flying in to shoot it. Sounds like a great project and I can't wait to see it.
