Impulse

Well, I didn’t quite hit my 8/31/08 dead­line, but I’m close.  I’ve fin­ished the first pass of color cor­rec­tion (dur­ing which I learned so much about the sub­tlety of that art — I’ll blog later about it), and have fin­ished mix­ing the first act of the movie. 

Audio mix­ing is turn­ing out to be much slower work (1 hour of work for 1 minute of movie), not only because the process is just plain slower, but because I can only do it for 1 – 1.5 hour chunks of time.  Just like dur­ing a con­cert, my ears get fatigued and it’s hard to hear the full spec­trum of audio.  So, I alter­nate: 1 hour mix­ing, 1 hour quiet. 

Today, I decided to be a lit­tle less of a per­fec­tion­ist, so I sus­pect I’ll be able to go much, much faster now.  It’s not like I’m try­ing to make a sur­round sound, the­atri­cal mix; just some­thing good enough for your TV.