I'm currently relishing in the final moments of the "Organs of Business" post production. It feels sad to be saying goodbye, but all great things must come to an end. Changes being made right now are minimal and I am taking pleasure in the minor adjustments and fixes to sound and visuals. Adding the studio intro to the timeline felt almost surreal. What was not too long ago an idea on sheets of paper is now a final cut film.
I am a proud editor.
I'd been putting the Mac OSX Catalina update off for so long now. I must've started getting the prompts last November. The reason I was so late to install it was mainly disk space. Being a creative I have many old files I struggle to get rid of, always worrying; What if I need this? Will it be gone forever? Why must things come to an end? FINALLY, I had a *brand spanking new* 5TB hard drive to send stuff to for safekeeping. I eventually plucked up the courage to copy the files over, delete them and click that install button.
*WHAT A TERRIBLE MISTAKE*
Unbeknownst to me, Catalina would unleash all evils upon my Steam library, my Avid applications AND my soul. Forums quickly revealed to me that Apple were no longer supporting the 32 bit applications we know and love. Portal 2, WineBottler, SIM CITY! All left behind to decay as relics of the past.
HAVING NO ACCESS TO AVID was a huge issue. 'Organs of Business' was in jeopardy and so was my career as an editor. I attempted to find solutions to the problem, initially in favour of ditching Apple and partitioning my hard drive to install windows via bootcamp. After conversations with fellow tech-head, Doug Smith, he suggested that I use the TEMPORARY solution of running High Sierra off of my old external hard drive.
Whilst this solves my Avid issue, I am still upset about the steam games missing in action :(
After a couple of weeks and six different versions of the film, we have reached the picture lock! I feel that the final result complements the script and makes the most of what material we have, now onto making those visuals even better in the grade and for sound the mix can begin. I sent the files over via AAF and a mov to accompany the sound with a visual reference in protools.
Time for me to start colour grading on DaVinci Resolve.