Easter Blessings and all that jazz

Happy Easter! He is Risen!

I'm spending my Easter at home, mainly because I have what feels like another sinus infection. But in all honesty, it's a blessing to be home alone on this sunny spring day. I puttered on my porch, getting ready for what I'll be planting this year and organizing the porch garden-to-be. In awhile, I'll bake some chicken breasts and get some sort of dinner going. But in the meantime, I decided I was going to start playing with my footage in DaVinci Resolve.

Saenamto Shrine, Seoul

Except..I can't yet because apparently all the media are in formats not supported by DaVinci. I've asked my editor to suggest what app or website to use to convert everything. So, that's going to be another long and tedious task that isn't filmmaking but is part of filmmaking. I am chomping at the bit to start actually playing with footage and getting the beginnings of an assemble edit underway.

But it's all good -- I'm learning more and more as I move through the process of dealing with digital media files. My editor is about an hour away from me, so sometime in May we will meet up so he can get the media on my external drive and give me a whirlwind tutoring session in what I'll be doing in DaVinci.

In the meantime, I may start noodling with images in iMovie just to be able to get some ideas going. I can always use ye olde fashioned paper log to keep track of the clips and times for future use. But I feel very strongly that I need to LOOK at this stuff and really get into the heart of what I'm doing.

And not for nothing, but time's running at its usual rate, which is to say faster than I realize. I want to be ready when school's out and this gets put on one of my two front burners (the other burner being my main job). I feel the urgency and the desire, but all things must work according to their natural processes, and with digital media, these are the processes that I have to learn about and feel comfortable with.