Two for three

Clermont-Ferrand said no (which we expected, seeing as they programmed three films from the US out of 540 submissions), but we have two yesses.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you about them, because they're both behind-the-scenes.

But this puts us two for three with our first three responses. If we maintain anything even close to that percentage, this is going to be a hell of a success.

The sampling's too small to even guess at our eventual acceptance rate. But two out of three beats none out of three.

The director's a moron

For the last six weeks or so, I've been prevented from calling it FINISHED by an issue with the surround sound mix. The music seems to be leaning somewhat to the left, rather than filling the entire left-to-right spectrum. (I'm not saying "stereo spectrum" because it's surround--that means six speakers. Stereo means two.)

The effects seem to be leaning a little to the right, too.

The dialogue, luckily, is dead center, where it's supposed to be.

But here's the problem. I don't have six speakers. I only have two, whether I'm listening in headphones or through the living room setup. So how do I fix this?

Well, duh. I go into Final Cut and increase the volume of the right stereo tracks and the left effects tracks, until it sounds right in stereo.

Seriously, this is such an obvious solution that those of you who aren't audio geeks have no idea what a numbnuts I feel like. And those of you who ARE audio geeks, well, shut up.