I was a little shocked to realize that I hadn’t done a progress update on My Most Difficult Case since last October. I’ve made some good progress since then. I’ve “locked” the video for the film. I don’t plan to make changes to it now, so I can move on with the sound. The film… Read Article →
Latest Posts Under: My Most Difficult Case
I did a little clean up work on My Most Difficult Case. I noticed some visual glitches in the film: spots, dust, light flashes, and stuff like that. I used the composite feature to replace the parts of the image where the problems were. I’m not sure that anyone would notice, but since I did,… Read Article →
Louie Koutis, who played the judge in My Most Difficult Case https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/filmlist/my-most-difficult-case/ , came over for a visit this week. I showed him the most recent cut of the film and he had some suggestions. I had been thinking along the same lines, so I went ahead and did the cuts. I tried to replace… Read Article →
I contacted some of the people who worked on the film to sign releases. Not everyone has gotten back to me, so I still need to follow up on this. I read Michael Ondaatje’s book “The Conversations” recently. It is a series of conversations with Walter Murch. In one section, Murch talks about using music… Read Article →
I got back to work on My Most Difficult Case (https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/filmlist/my-most-difficult-case/) this week. I didn’t do much in August, because I decided to write and post some articles on Triond. I did six altogether. My first goal was to recreate what Vildo Sturam did when he did a re-edit a few years ago. I got… Read Article →
I started to edit My Most Difficult Case. https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/filmlist/my-most-difficult-case/ several years ago, I decided to reedit the film before I tried to distribute it. Vildo Sturam did a new cut for me that was a big improvement over what I had done. However, other parts of my life intruded and the project went on the… Read Article →
I made a small step forward on My Most Difficult Case this week. I arranged to get my Digital Beta tapes converted to computer files by Digital Video Masters so I can start the re-editing. They will be converting the tapes into 10-bit uncompressed format. The files from that are large, but they are better… Read Article →
