THERE’S some promo to be done for the upcoming Finland and Estonia shows then I try and work out why the video footage we filmed yesterday is out of sync with the main audio track.
Looks like something's been automatically ‘conformed’ during import to the FInal Cut project so I clear everything out and start again. Sorted.
The gimbal – a DJI RS4 Mini – wasn’t playing ball yesterday so spend some time re-balancing and updating firmware etc. I think I can rescue some of the footage tho’ and add various trackers and stuff to some of the clips to try and make the shots more consistent.
It’s another nice day and I take advantage by taking a wander up the lochside then get some pizza dough out the freezer to defrost for tonight.
There’s a letter in from Cumbria police following up my speeding notice. Caught doing 47mph in a temporary 40mph zone on the motorway at 1.30am on the way back form the Huddersfield show a few weeks ago. There’s an option to book (and pay for!) a speed awareness course rather than a £100 fine and three points. I do some online research and find I can attend he course online and the cheapest place is Hartlepool at £83. I book onto Tuesday’s three-hour course. Ah well, saved £17 and the points.
Back in the studio, the trackers and other adjustments have done their processing and I spend the next few hours trying to pull together a rough edit of Soul of a Man. It’s gonna need a considerable amount of ‘styling’ and colour grading, but it might turn out usable. At worst it’ll let us see if my ‘break all the rules’ approach of a long shot cut with extreme close-ups might work.
Eventually I get back to the house and fire up the pizza oven. The pizzas ain’t my best effort tho’ – partly, I think down to the last batch of dough I made which was a departure from my usual approaches.
