Filming log: post-production on Crawl For Haiti

The editing of our footage from last Sunday was an excellent study in collaborative editing, which is tricky since there's only one mouse and a million opinions. Our finished product, however, was a very nice little minute-and-a-bit of a charity awareness film.

Things I learned:

• How to find the autosave vault
• How to compress interviews, layering voices over other images
• The importance of wild sound
• Timelapse will cause Final Cut to crash
• For some reason, when you try to render the typing-text effect it won't work, but if you export it it works out fine 
• The light in the edit suite is on a dimmer
• A nice trick from Adam - watch your film with no sound, listen to it with no visuals

The kerfuffle over distribution was a good bonding experience - there's nothing like a West Side Story style showdown to bring people together. What I learned was that not everyone will appreciate what you do and that you have to have the conviction of your own position, but it is now available to be seen, an here you go: