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Rae Chang
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While we finish up the audio mixing with Matt this week, we decided to make a change to the look of our subtitles in Autumn Gem. Up until today, we’ve been using Final Cut’s standard Text generator to create our subtitles. Here’s a screenshot of what our subtitles used to look like:
This afternoon, I began switching over to using the Outline Text generator. This has a numb...Read more
We’ve completed our ADR recording yesterday at Matt’s house. Preston was the final actor to come in and record his lines. Now, Rae and I are off to make the final picture lock on the film while Matt continues his audio mixing magic. Here are some photos from the past three weeks of ADR work with our actors and actresses from Autumn Gem.
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Rae and I have learned quite a bit about using Final Cut to create our documentary, Autumn Gem. Here are some tips that will save you a lot of time when putting together your film.
Last week, we went to Matt’s house to ADR dialogue with our actress, Li Jing. We also submitted our film to be listed on IMDB through our membership with Without A Box. I noticed that there’s another Adam Tow listed in IMDB; that means, I’ll be Adam Tow (II) once my listing is created.
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Lately, the numbers 0.82, 0.84, 0.88, 1.0, 1.24, 1.3, and 1.4 have been foremost on my mind. These are the gamma correction values that I find myself frequently applying to video clips coming into and out of Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Color, Compressor and DVD Studio Pro software. Although I’ve read numerous articles on the handling of gamma on Mac OS X, I don’t find myself anywhere closer to understanding the whole picture.
A few days ago Adam, Petrice, and I went to see "Arabian Nights," Mary Zimmerman's new play at the Berkeley Rep. I had seen her earlier works, "Metamorphoses" and "Argonautika," which were beautifully retold Greek myths, and had very high expectations for this latest production.
The first thing we see upon entering the theater is a pile of dull gray dropcloths, sitting in a misshapen heap on the stage, a barren concrete wall as backdrop. Two drummers meet at the center of the pil...Read more
Here’s a screenshot from the Mac OS X Activity Monitor showing all eight cores on our Mac Pro working hard to encode Autumn Gem into a DVD. Our documentary is about 60 minutes long, and it takes roughly two hours to perform a 2-pass MPEG-2 encode.
As of today, we’ve created five different cuts of the film, each one leaner and more representative of the final cut. We’ll so...Read more
Well, it’s finally time to make it official! We’re transitioning away from our working title The Qiu Jin Project in favor of Autumn Gem as the official name of the project. The domain names have been purchased, email has been set up, and the redirects are now working.
You can still reach the website by typing in http://qiu-jin.com, but you will now be magically redirected to htt...Read more
The past few days, Rae and I have been preparing the film to submit to a number of film festivals in California and Oregon. We’ve been furiously finishing up cut number four, along with writing applications, burning DVDs and assembling press kits. On Friday, we drove up to Stanford and San Francisco to drop or mail our submissions. Now, it’s out of our hands and up to the festival screeners to see if the documentary is worthy!
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During the filming of Autumn Gem , we used Phoxle SpectraSnap White Balance Filter 1 to set a custom white balance for each scene. I’ve used many white balance products in the past, including ExpoDisc, WhiBal, and gray cards, and I’ve found the SpectraSnap to be one of the better products out there. Its a...Read more
