Editing Begins

Wow. How to describe the feeling? A simple UPS delivery arrives from LA containing our 1 Terabyte hard drive, the same drive that we had sent to Cinelicious two weeks ago. We open the box, plug in the drive, and there it is: seven beautiful hours of digitized Beneath Contempt film footage-- a sterling HD transfer-- safely in our hands and looking...fantastic!

First things first...cut together a quick trailer to give everyone a taste of the look of our film. Second things second...log and synchronize all the audio files...bleh. Now here we are, three days before Thanksgiving and six days after giving thanks to the gods of film processing and ground shipping.

Let the editing begin.

Post Production Begins!

Since the end of principal photography, we've transitioned to the most nerve-wracking phase of the whole project: processing our 40 rolls of super 16mm film and transferring the images to digital format. At the start of this phase we have to part with our 17,000 feet of exposed film--and send it traveling 3,000 miles to our processing house in Los Angeles, FotoKem.

After a nervous week of waiting, the package made it OK.

FotoKem did the processing without any problem.

The next step: move the film negative across town to LA-based post production house Cinelicious, who handles the transfer to HD (Apple ProRes 422 1920X1080). We saw bits of the footage online via their "Colorcast" video service as it was corrected for color and exposure. Everything we saw looked terrific.

Once the digital transfer is done we will have a back-up copy of all footage and we can finally put the single-point-of-failure phase behind us.