Update Due.

The editing on Release the 7"! is 85-90% done and should be completed by the end of this weekend.  The footage was all imported late last week (had some evening commitments last Monday through Wednesday), and as it stands, I only have one band's set to sift through and cut up.  As planned, one band's set leads into the other by way of black title cards.  I've decided to use the font Impact for all of the lettering, most of it done in red.  The red font on a black background brings to mind grindhouse movies from the 70s, and it fits well with most of the music.  I also added some other titles during performances: some to identify members of a band lending talent to another band's set (namely the F***ing Elephant crew making cameos in So Is The Tongue's set), and some for comedic effect (at least I think they're funny).  For transitions that will cut out a little bit of down time, I found a transition under the Quicktime menu called Matrix Wipe, which is divided into sub-options.  The Random Matrix Wipe in particular provides a neat, static-like effect, not as crazy as a television on the fritz, but unique all its own.  The one issue I started having, perhaps in relation to the amount of footage I'm working on combined with all of the extra stuff I'm adding, is that the project would begin dropping frames during playback.  My biggest annoyance throughout my time editing.  I just have to remember to keep the most important things open and to save the project frequently; a dropped frame alert means I'd have to then close it without saving it and reopen it as its former self.

When all is said and done, the first disc will have the first two bands and a written introduction, and it will run for an hour.  The second disc, likely running one hour and forty minutes, will have the last three bands and end credits.  Once everything is through and chapter markers have been placed, I'll export the two movie files into Quicktime files and burn them onto DVD-Rs.  My exporting method of choice, amongst the through good selections Final Cut Pro 5 offers me, is Apple Intermediate Codec, which allows the movie to fit into a 16:9 television screen.