Another hiccup likely due to my old external drive (though I think there’s a good chance my out-of-date editing software may be to blame too) is that my project file was damaged at some point after Fanime, forcing me to work off a backup (auto-save, I love you). Unfortunately, what I didn’t discover until last night was that this backup file was created before I did the audio mixing for the last twenty minutes of the movie. At least all my edits are still in place.

The mixing of these scenes should only take me another day or three, and then all I got to do is work on the brightness issue and assemble the deleted scenes. My current thinking is that Song will be released on YouTube first while I investigate the feasibility of reformatting the video for 16:9 display for DVD/DivX release. I had experimented with making ReDeath 16:9 on its DVD, but cropping ReDeath for 16:9 resulted in a softer image compared to having my HDTV zoom in on the 4:3 letterbox image, so I left it non-anamorphic. But since Song requires subtitles (for most), it seems worthwhile to give it the 16:9 treatment so people with widescreen TVs don’t have to choose between a big picture and being able to read the dialogue. We’ll see.