Full Steam Ahead

I seem to have found a temporary resolution to my 24p woes: I'm going to just go ahead an capture the footage in a 60i timeline, and edit that together. This means that I don't need to send the footage to Compressor, which I've found to be horribly slow. I did an edit of some of the 60i captured footage, and burned it to DVD, and played it on my player, and that seemed to work okay. So, my plan is to just push ahead that way. I could always send the clips that I am definitely going to use to Compressor, and edit together the final project in 24p mode later. The good news is I feel that I've got enough of a solution to move ahead with the project.

Dad and I have been watching the raw footage together. I find watching the raw footage to be quite painful times - sometimes it's boring, and sometimes it's frustrating for me because of minor details I got wrong. Basically, I need to watch it all, and separate the wheat from the chaff. So far, we've watched about 13 hours of footage together, including the interviews with Ela Gandhi, Joy Brain, Father Rattering, and now Devi Rajab. It's a big help watching the footage with Dad, and I appreciate him spending the time with me on this.

Mum has asked me to burn her DVDs of the different interviews. I'd like to finish watching and capturing all the raw footage, burn the interview DVDs, and get a rough cut of the project in the next two weeks, before I travel out to BC for my conjugal visit with Sharmeen from Feb. 6-15.

In other news, Mum and I met with the faculty club to begin to plan her birthday party for March 1st. Mum's actual birthday is February 29th - a leap day. So, although Mum will be 76, it will actually be her "19th" real birthday. We've got plans for a big party, and a short speech. I'd like to have a draft of the movie done by then, although it sounds like the movie premiere will happen at a later date.