Stro

[Drunk Monk]

No, I'm not hiding from sending the pages of notes I have to the composer. You're hiding from sending your notes to the composer.

[Greg]

That purple passage is nice.

[Drunk Monk]

That purple passage is nice.

[Greg]

You deleted a post, but didn't permanently delete it, so I get this giant run of text on a purple background. It shows a link to some GIF you were trying to post. I'm guessing that failed.


In news to no one, I'm watching Stro again this morning to get a better handle on the music. Our composer did agree to rework three of the tracks but he's waiting on my next set of notes before he gets started.

I might write a note to the Director of the SF Doc fest to see if can give me a week to get the film ready.

[Drunk Monk]

You deleted a post, but didn't permanently delete it, so I get this giant run of text on a purple background. It shows a link to some GIF you were trying to post. I'm guessing that failed.

Ah okay. Yeah I wanted to post an animated gif of that Coen Bro clip above but it didn't work out. Not sure why it went purple tho.  

I might write a note to the Director of the SF Doc fest to see if can give me a week to get the film ready.

Hoping for the best.  When is that supposed to be held?

[Greg]

Purple is the highlight color the forum underlays the deleted posts.

SF DocFest is still scheduled for June.

Although, I think we might do a cast and crew screening up in Albany like we did for The Last Captain. That place was relatively inexpensive.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

Well, then. My composer said he will have all the changes done by tomorrow. Which means I can be finished by Wednesday.

If I can get the million little fixits done by then.

Good times!

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

Swing low. Sweet chariot. Coming for to carry me home.

[Drunk Monk]

home.

i think we've lost greg.  too much editing eats away at the mind.

[Greg]

Well, there wasn't that much to eat to begin with.

[Greg]

I get a lot of email from Film Festivals because of my ongoing pursuits.

Today I got one from the Lift-Off Festival with links to a video. The video tells me the absolute steps I must take before I move into production. Well, that's only two years too late.

[Greg]

Time to watch a movie......

[Greg]

Once again my life has swung from sorrow to joy. And it all has to do with audio. I had some bad audio from interviews of Michael D'Asaro. And who made the audio so bad? Me. But who fixed it? Me.

An Audio journey

I was getting ready to send  some more audio to a friend to fix that was even worse than the audio I already sent him. I couldn’t take the background hiss and static in the files anymore. Especially since one of them was the first bit of audio I heard as the movie opened. It wasn’t going to be a good first impression.



As I ran through the film again this morning, I heard a particularly bad spike in one of the D’Asaro bits of audio. It was full on static. I didn’t know where it came from. I was going to go back to the original files and see maybe I could find a clean track that I could swap in. I had some watermarked video but I was thinking I could use the audio because it was underneath a picture.



As I was going through the original audio, I noticed it was all really really clean. How could this be? How could I get the tracks back to the really clean audio.



Well, because I am an audio engineering genius, I realized that the good audio was on one track and there was nothing but static on the other track. When I switched from stereo to Dual Mono, it just doubled up the static track and mixed it with the vocal, making it a noisy mess. But when I doubled up just the good track, all the noise went away and I was left with a clean track. Pristine clean. 



Now, I had two interviews I’m cutting up of D’Asaro. The other was later in his life. It was equally horrible. I had done the same Double Mono and amplified the noise. But I was thinking it was a stereo track to begin with which I couldn’t fix. But, no. Whoever recorded it, recorded straight from the mic on one channel and the room from the other channel. Once again, I turned off the room and only doubled the good track. More good audio.



I am so dumb sometimes.