Three sleeps to go...

...until presentation time; so how's it going?

Well, I'm putting in the hours but not necessarily getting the results and constantly thinking of work arounds and/or compromises. After Sunday I have very few hours to spare for this.

For instance, in the face transplanting in Gimp as I'm mechanically following tutorials I've found - if they don't work I'm at sea as I did not and certainly don't now, have the time to experiment. I'm also finding that Gimp is generating huge files which overwhelm this laptop's RAM with the result that they chew up heaps of time as they go slow, and both Gimp and MovieMaker have a tendency to hang up PC and I have to re-boot regularly.

Gimp issues:
Sarah on Mark transplant - skin colours are racidally different andI can't seem to colour balance them. In additon the gaussian blurr of just the cutout endge doesn't seem to be working.

Mark on Sarah transplant - can't seem to adequately hide Sarah's nose.

Movie issues:
I'm getting frustrated by MovieMaker's limitations with frame editing: its not as accurate as iMovie, and I wish I could lengthen or shorten its transition effects.

I also seem to have too much soundtrack: I have a number of separate sound environments I've made, but not enough space or a clear idea about how to assemble them with the visuals. It seems to be a case of work on movie. Then go back to sound and work on that a while, influenced by the patterns and rhythms I've seen in the shots and then return to the film and see how what sound combinations I've made affect the editing.

A key Audacity issue is sound speed. Unless I want to make an effect with non-matching sound speeds, I have adjust files form different sources. This is a trial and error approach of copying and pasting the sound into a base file and adjusting speed to match it (and sometimes pitch and tempo as well) until it seems to sound okay!

AaaaaH!