I’m finally getting back to polishing Song. The biggest headache has to do with the audio mixing where I’m adding or removing footage. Since the audio mixing was applied as keyframes on the entire audio track, any change to the length of footage requires the keyframes to moved as well, which sadly does not occur automatically. Not difficult, but obnoxious.

Also not cool is that my old external firewire drive (a 120GB I’ve had since late 2001, on which Nescaflowné and ReDeath ReDux were edited) is flaking on me. Some footage and music cues were damaged and needed to be replaced. Thankfully, the damage to the whole is minimal, but I’ll definitely be retiring this drive from editing work once this project is complete.

I’ve crossed the halfway point and am currently considering shortening one, maybe two of the action scenes. If I can do it without butchering the music behind them, I most likely will. That’s about it for the edits I think the video needs, everything else is just tweaking a subtitle here and there or adding some sound effects where needed. I also think it’d be cool if I could find someone to translate the end credit theme for me (it’s in Italian), but that’s just extra credit. And then, it’s the deleted scenes and the DVD authoring, but I think I could get this online before then.