Fixing Pinot

Busy today but sadly not on 2-59.

Our Pinot epic is being shown next month. It seems not only a "good idea" but very necessary to check it out. When I opened up the edit done Oct 13 last year, I really wasn't surprised to find missing holes (shots). The data scattered over the 10 disc drives in the system and I never bothered to consolidate the files using FCP's Media Manager.

Some re-links were easy - others impossible. I swapped out a few drives and most missing shots suddenly re appeared. But there were some that were impossible. Oh well, I thought I will find them in the old Oct. mixdown. Nope, the only Oct 13 mixdown is in standard def. and useless. So last night I gave up put the lot on "render" and went out for dinner with our daughter. When we came back at 10:00, the stupid thing was STILL rendering. I left it on overnight.

Today, with a lot of "why did I do that?" I finally got it all together. Took all morning. Now I am consolidating - that copies the whole thing to a single disk drive and keeps ALL the data in ONE place. Then I need to do a High Def. mixdown. Next a SD copy for DVDs - then to burn 25 DVDs. The consolidating is taking for ever. With nothing to do - I decided to create a DVD cover in Photoshop.

I made a print on my Epson - it had two black lines - I cleaned the heads and suddenly it says it needs more YELLOW ink - the one cartridge I don't have.

OK I'll print on the HP. Yikes - the ink is still wet and its all over me. Not only that it looks soft and fuzzy.

It wasn't meant to be easy, was it?