5.5 hours editing, I've started keeping a a paper running sheet and this is helping me keep track of all this segments. The material is tightening up nicely, with many of the holes being filled by the June interviews with Dick.

In the past weekend, got in another 7 or so hours of editing and had this strange feeling where I could see the end in sight... Length is 21 minutes - I'll probably still add another 3 or 4.

This weekend was spent rearranging sequences and refining (dicing & slicing) some additional interview material. I'm now basically happy with the words and can't see too many more additions. Good results.

4 hours of editing and I can actually see the end in sight for LH. 2, maybe 3 more scenes and twill be done. Pleased. Very f***king pleased. Need to record a couple of spots of sound, but I feel the high res capture is imminent.

Have reservations about doing future long-form projects. Too much time, and I have so many techniques & ideas I want to play with...

Had the day almost to myself. Spent 6 hours editing Lost. Finished off the use of all Dick's photos.

Charger Int Lost Highways 1 Passenger seat Alcoa in distance 2001/12/29 14:37:22 LS Passenger window Alcoa

Then the world got kind of cramped.

Got myself into quite a mess - because as I was working on one section, the edits I was making were pushing things further down the line out of whack. Clips were being overwritten.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Noticed this around 1pm. Spent the next 2 hours sorting through Autosaved copies of the FCP Project - I have it set to save every 10 minutes. A lifesaver! Still it took me a long time to go through these and, as part of the reclamation process, I cut the New Cut 0803 sequence into separate scenes. To do this I have to cut and paste part of the timeline into a new sequence. And this does mean that each of these new sequences has to rendered... Time, time, time.