Where I'm at

Goddamn it's hell to edit this thing. I've been doing fx work all day. When you edit, yeah whatever cut this, cut that. It gets tedious. So I decided to do the fine tuning on the frieda static scene. Sadly I had the brightness on the monitor dialed waaaay down so when I finally remember to put it back up to take a look at my work, wow, turns out the footage is a lot brighter than I thought and all my renders are garbage. But whatever, I'll still work on it some more.

As for the final battle. The rough cut of it is all done. It flows, it makes sense, it progresses from point to point without anything too jarring, but needs fine tuning of course. And found a bunch of scenes I shot months ago that are perfect for points in it. But yeah I knew this would be hard, my biggest mistake being that I didn't organize anything much. Would have helped to stick things that are for whatever parts of the fight into folders. So dumb and now everything's delayed because sometimes it takes me hours to track down lost bits.

Some things excite you about doing this. I actually fully repaired footage I had of me landing for the battle with boom. The canon camera has a wonderful bit of dust in the lens that adds a nice big brown dark spot in the middle of some good footage. I decided I need the footage so I cut it into the scene and said to myself I have no choice, just going to have to live with the blotch. Turns out a little after effects saved my ass there. Little masking, little brightness and contrast adjustment, probably could have de-saturated it, but it's practically gone because all the grain did was darken the light the camera caught as the light didn't get around the dust well, but everything behind it was still there, just darker. Brightened it up and it looks clean and nice now, amazing....

Well that's all, kinda a slow day nothing major getting done really, though when I was going through it today decided to shift things add things so I did improve it. But what I really have to jump on is getting all of completely finished, half is done, so much left to go. Tomorrow has to count.