Re: my red/color indie experience

Greg,

Your experience sounds like a a classic example of why it is important to ask questions before you undertake a project of this size and to do tests.

You solved all of the problems yourself but it sounds like you were going to the manual after or during the post post process, so what can you really expect?

For the record, and I am not trying to disagree with walter, but I strongly recommend breaking up any long show into reels that are 15 to 22 minutes long. I have a few reasons for this.

-Less media in each project to manage.
-Easier to identify where the problem media is without holding up the progress of the whole project. IE. if you have a problem in reel 2, reel 1 and 3 can still be completed.
-things are easily restitched into one timeline in FCP
-I just think that smaller XML's are better than asking fcp and Color to track 835 events.

Foe example, I just did a 27 minute film in six reels, so I could break up the renders, etc.

It's really great that you posted your experiences because it helps others see that planning is a very important part of going it alone. My experience has taught me to look at any post experience like a solo sailing trip around the world. You have to have as much knowledge as you can muster to complete that experience.

Post is mostly a pain when you travel down an unknown road. It's pretty seamless with experience and I think that the experience you just had with Color has probably taught you a lot.

I hope your next one is better.

David





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