Jerks of War II: Post-Production Blog #1
by MrBoGaNgLes on Comments
It's just now 4:00 in the A.M.
Today was an exciting day. After putting up a trailer just two days ago, I have almost finished a rough cut of Jerks of War II: Insane.
On Tues. I quickly captured a little footage to use for the teaser and cut it together quickly. It turned out alright. After that, I got really pumped and started capturing and editing a little bit of the movie.
We shot the movie a while ago, like in mid-January. Usually the day after shooting I would start editing, like I did with Jerks of War: Pillow Fight, but I was so tired and sick of the material I didn't want any part of editing right away. Plus my friend from Las Vegas was sending me Adobe Primiere Pro. I wanted to edit this film in something better than Windows Movie Maker.
So about a week later the software arives from Vegas and I'm super-stoked. Once it's all installed I go right for my camera. I try to capture video to Adobe and it couldn't detect my camera.
After a few days of trying, I realize that Adobe needs a Fireware hook-up (a special wire for digital video capturing) and my cpu doesn't have a Firewire port, nor do I have a Firewire. And to boot, my cpu case isn't even big enough to upgade! Pain in my balls!!!
After sulking around for another few days I finally realize that JOW II is going to be edited in Movie Maker. So I accept it, and, almost a month after shooting rapped, I started editing my baby.
Yesterday, Valentine's Day, I edited almost the whole movie. I finished capturing almost an hour and a half of footage and started chopping away to get around 9 minutes of a rough cut of JOW II. The only thing I didn't finish was the ending. And as far as rough cuts go, this is one SMOOTH rough cut.
And later today I'll hopefully finish up my precious JOW II and then, next week, I'll put the finishing touches on it for it's release. I hope everyone who enjoyed the first one, (and those who didn't) will enjoy this fantastic short movie. It's shaping up to be a really fun little film.
Thanks for reading!
~Robert