Post-Production: The Journey Continues
By Kevin Gasca editor
I signed on to be the editor of Palo Alto in April, and have had quite a while to gear up for working on this film. You think you know what you’re getting into, but you really have no idea. Over the course of these last few months, everyone associated with the production has been through many trials and tribulations – and that was just on set, in another completely different city! There is another vast realm that now is being ventured into on Palo Alto, and that is post production.
Since the production is shot on location in the Bay area and editorial (as well as our film processing and post production house) is based out of Los Angeles, our first real problem was how to create an adequate workflow to get dailies back up to the production. The ultimate solution came from our esteemed executive producer, Phillip Engelhardt, who set up an “.ftp” (file transfer protocol). This gave myself and my co-editor Daniel Walker a way to cut together dailies in the Avid Media Composer© and then upload the dailies selects to the FTP. Seconds later Brad and the rest of the crew can see their hard work come to fruition some 350 miles away!
Simultaneously, as the film was being shipped into Los Angeles and being processed at Fotokem, I supervised the telecine sessions (the process of transferring film negative into digital video – in our case DVCAM for “SD” and D5 for our “HD” ) at IVC with our colorist, Steve Peer. I just want to give my sincere thanks to Steve for all his hard work and many hours spent doing a first color pass for our film; his work is greatly appreciated! Also, all of us with Palo Alto owe many thanks to Peter Dana—who is our sales representative over at IVC. Without him, none of this would be happening on the post production end!
We are currently in the middle of our first assembly cut of the film where we basically lay out each scene as it was shot. Then we sit down with Brad and decide what elements of each scene are the most crucial and what other elements are expendable. As scenes are pieced together and more of the film is completed we will keep everyone updated. But now we have to concentrate on a fast approaching deadline. So to Brad, Dan, Steve, Tony and the rest of the Palo Alto post production crew, we’ve got some work ahead of us, but it’s coming together and it looks great!
I signed on to be the editor of Palo Alto in April, and have had quite a while to gear up for working on this film. You think you know what you’re getting into, but you really have no idea. Over the course of these last few months, everyone associated with the production has been through many trials and tribulations – and that was just on set, in another completely different city! There is another vast realm that now is being ventured into on Palo Alto, and that is post production.
Since the production is shot on location in the Bay area and editorial (as well as our film processing and post production house) is based out of Los Angeles, our first real problem was how to create an adequate workflow to get dailies back up to the production. The ultimate solution came from our esteemed executive producer, Phillip Engelhardt, who set up an “.ftp” (file transfer protocol). This gave myself and my co-editor Daniel Walker a way to cut together dailies in the Avid Media Composer© and then upload the dailies selects to the FTP. Seconds later Brad and the rest of the crew can see their hard work come to fruition some 350 miles away!
Simultaneously, as the film was being shipped into Los Angeles and being processed at Fotokem, I supervised the telecine sessions (the process of transferring film negative into digital video – in our case DVCAM for “SD” and D5 for our “HD” ) at IVC with our colorist, Steve Peer. I just want to give my sincere thanks to Steve for all his hard work and many hours spent doing a first color pass for our film; his work is greatly appreciated! Also, all of us with Palo Alto owe many thanks to Peter Dana—who is our sales representative over at IVC. Without him, none of this would be happening on the post production end!
We are currently in the middle of our first assembly cut of the film where we basically lay out each scene as it was shot. Then we sit down with Brad and decide what elements of each scene are the most crucial and what other elements are expendable. As scenes are pieced together and more of the film is completed we will keep everyone updated. But now we have to concentrate on a fast approaching deadline. So to Brad, Dan, Steve, Tony and the rest of the Palo Alto post production crew, we’ve got some work ahead of us, but it’s coming together and it looks great!
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