Production Thoughts
I’m still working on editing my two new documentaries. There was an issue with the Adobe Premier CS3 file for Our Side of Joy. For some reason, even when I used an earlier version of Adobe Premier, sometimes the files get corrupt for no reason and you could loose the whole thing or part of it. Before I would loose ALL of the audio. This time, I not only lost part of one of the interviews but the clip had been switched with a copy of the one after it. So there were two copies of one clip which is why part of the edited clip was lost (it wasn’t the right clip on the timeline). It had the right name but when you played it , the audio and video for the other clip played instead and this was true over in the file list (not on the timeline). But THANK GOODNESS for autosave! So I ended opening up one of the auto-saved projects, copying that correctly edited clip and opening the corrupted file, deleting the messed up clip and pasting the correctly edited one in it’s place. And that fixed the issue. The reason why I didn’t just use the autosave project is because I only had the program set for 5 auto-saves so the most recent one didn’t have the complete 7 hour edit. So I just fixed the one that did and set the auto-save limit to 99.
So the first trim for Our Side of Joy is done (although I haven’t finished the first trim of the B-roll footage) and now I’m considering going ahead and making the trailer for it.
I’m currently working on the first trim for “Charise:…” and its going ok but I’m already realizing that I don’t have enough B-Roll footage and I just didn’t get enough good footage of her doing regular everyday stuff. So I’m going to have to get creative. This is also true for the twins documentary although I got a lot of B-Roll footage, its very specific footage and can’t be used just anywhere.
I’m also wondering how the interview I did with Charise on the beach is going to fly in this film because it is noisy but you can still hear Charise quite clearly. It was the best interview I was able to get out of her so I know it will be important to use it. I was sitting inside the back of my rented PT Cruiser with the camera ect. while she sat outside and that’s how we got the interview.
Cheers
