We had a great production meeting last night with Mark. We are nailing down the story structure on paper. This gives us a guide from which to proceed and divert. We also figured out the shooting schedule for this years races. We will plan on shooting interviews between the races.
Once interviews are shot I will complete a rough cut. Basically what I'm going to do is cut out everything that is entirely unusable. I'll probably end up with a 10 hour timeline! Oh man my system is fast but I hope it can take it the kind of abuse I'm going to give it with this doc. I made need to break the film up into different projects! We'll see.
For those of you who are interested I'm cutting on a quad-core Mac Pro and I'm cutting in native HDV as I plan on doing only little color correction. Editing HDV on this workstation is pretty nice because the quad-core processing really crunches through anything you throw at it. HDV works well here because it's low bandwidth and I've got only a two drive RAID. HDV is compressed so its low bandwidth makes accessing it from the hard drive faster. The other side of it is that the computer has to crunch the compressed data, which my workstation handles quite well due to it's four processing cores. It's a balanced system.
The fact that FCPS2 handle HDV natively very well is just icing on the cake. Everything works GREAT! I am REALLY excited to edit this project!
-Chris
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