Are You Serious Right Now?!
Gabe gave me the new DNGFL last week. So, I take it to my house, import the .MOV in to Premier, carefully add my credits to the end of it, and then I export it. Then I check the new, exported .MOV. I watch it all the way through, even though my computer struggles through it because it’s like a 23 gig file. It looks good. I’m satisfied. I burn it to a DVD and just for shits and giggles I throw it in to my DVD player. It looks great, I’m happy, I’m talking to my girlfriend on the phone about how awesome it looks. She’s happy, I’m happy, everything is great. Then I yell out “Mother fucker!” because the credits come on screen and look all distorted and screwed up. I sit in shock and disbelief. tell my girlfriend I have to go. I contemplate throwing my DVD player out the window. Then I realize that it’s not the DVD players fault. Then I contemplate throwing my computer out the window. I realize that it’s not my computers fault. No, this is the fault of this fucking short film. Then I realize that I can’t throw it out the window because technically, it doesn’t have a physical presence. My frustration grows stronger. I guess I’ll just keep trudging on. I’ve burned tons of short films and never had a problem with the credits screwing up like that. Why now? Why this short film? Because this project is the devil, that’s why.
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November 16th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
This reminds me of the situation Lucas had in the desert filming episode 4.. A sand storm came, destroy half the equipment, and Lucas literally almost gave up and walked out on shooting this film… But stuck with it, made a good piece film that had put lil bit of money in his pocket.
now.. HURRY UP AND GET THIS SH*T DONE!!