Picture-Lock. It’s coloring time.

The Royal Street flavor is steadily developing itself. This screen cap was taken a few days ago, so the project has progressed a significant amount – enough to say we’ve probably got a pretty solid rough cut. Can’t wait until we start to color this monster! We shot about 4.5 hours of footage and need to condense it to about 12 minutes. Moving every thing into the Avid was an adventure. The workflow seems pretty smooth once every thing is transcoded from the camera card. Not quick though - takes about 2.3x the duration of an individual clip to import. For this project, I’m a fan of the Avid DNxHD 175 X codec. Looks gorgeous.

This weekend we’re headed back to the streets! Royal Street in Mobile, Alabama, that is. Since this is our second visit, we’ll be wrapping up all of the content that we need to get so we can start cutting the picture sometime next week. We’ll be able to reach our March 9th deadline without a problem! I’ll have you up to date as it all progresses!

This was a cut I put together using Avid Symphony with footage from the 2009 horror film Red Velvet. I had no affiliation with the actual film itself, and this is just a cut that was used for some editing and color timing practice.

This was an edit for a goodbye scene for a senior thesis film titled The Man With Two Lives. This was also cut using an Avid workstation.