Rough Cut

We have big news from Brightline Pictures and Advent Film Group!

The Post Production team has finished a rough cut of the film ONE GOOD MAN!  That means that our project has gone from being an idea in the minds of the Producers and Writers, to a garbled collection of shots and sounds, and is now a coherent story.  It took a lot of hours and hard work but we have what you could call a movie.

Here’s a breakdown of the process:

1)      Ingest the assets into the editing system. This means logging the video and audio files, merging audio to video, and making proxy files for editing (converting RED files to QuickTime files)

2)      Organize the scenes and sequences into logical groupings and identify the best takes. This also includes making multiple identical hard drive backups

3)      Assemble the footage into a rough cut edit, which means making ‘light’ editorial decisions, which enables us to see the entire story as it was filmed (flaws and all), but not make final editorial decisions

People involved included: Brooke Martin, Buddy Martin, Manny Edwards, Stephen Pappas, Peter Forbes, James Suttles, Amy Jarvis, John Rust, and George Escobar. Work was done in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. We used Final Cut Pro for editing and Dropbox for file sharing across several editorial locations.

We know it sounds complicated.  That’s because it is, which is why this moment is such a blessing for us.  God has been good.