Post-Production is a nightmare...

The Resolution Problem

I made a stupid choice of shooting this intro in 4K, which is an absolutely enormous file size. When I edit, I am basically just guessing because the files and are so big I cannot playback what I am editing. I imagine this is what editing with real film looks like because I truly have no idea what the end result will look like.

I have exported it a couple of times to see what it may look like and I had some huge issues with adobe because the sequence I was editing in was 30 FPS for some reason I still haven’t figured out. This essentially ruined a lot of the edit, so I had to create a new sequence with the right dimensions and 24 FPS.

So far, this is taking me way too long to edit and I very much regret shooting in 4K.

Reshoots

Two of the shots that we shot during the weekend were super rough. One was a close-up of the teeth which came out very shaky and the white balance was off that it made the shot a little too green and yellow. The next shot with the boxes also came out completely out of focus, so I had to go in and reshoot all of this stuff by myself.

I am not going to lie, I should have been more adamant about using a tripod on set instead of trying to do these shots handheld. It would have saved me an enormous headache of taking out all my equipment and making a huge mess for literally four seconds of footage.

Color Grading

I can’t color grade. I just don’t know how to do it. I also have a really bad eye for these kinds of things, but it is essential to the project because it makes a huge difference in the picture.

I’m basically just fumbling around with the colors and just upping the contrast to make it seem like I know what I am doing, but I have no clue at all.

I’ve watched some YouTube tutorials about color grading, but I think the footage looks so ugly because it looks like a YouTube video, not like an actual movie.