Guess I should talk about how we are handling post production on this flick. It's pretty tech oriented but I get asked this stuff a lot.We shot the movie over a year and half period, about thirty some odd shooting days total. The main camera was a then brand new Panasonic HVX-200. We shot it at 1920x1080 resolution at 23.976 frames a sec. The camera shoots to memory cards called P2 cards. The codec the camera shoots is called DVCPROHD and the raw footage takes up a gigabyte a minute. Because it's digital we back everything up onto two separate hard drives. Every day after we shot I back everything up a third time. Generally everything worked well, we never lost a single clip and the camera has been totally reliable.
I began editing the movie on Sony Vegas and using Cineform to make the footage into .avi' files. Last October Adobe Premiere CS3 updated and now edits footage shot by this camera natively. This means we can drag and drop files right into the timeline. It also means that we can use Photoshop and the mighty After Effects without ever having to render out. This means that there will never be a single generation lost no matter how many times I take my edits between these programs. There's even a simple yet very powerful program called Adobe Soundbooth that does an amazing job cleaning up audio and has decent collection of foley sounds you download for free.
So right now everything is Adobe CS3 we plan on locking a cut next week so I can move on to audio cleanup, foley, CG, color correction etc.
Gotta go. The movie Editor Kris Caudilla is having to much fun putting on temp music when we need to take the movie from it's present 110 minutes running to something closer to 90 minutes.
to be continued
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