[hatter76]

Well Im ready to begin work again,
but there is a problem, its not with my computer or my software, it’s me.

Over the past few days Ive had a chance to reflect on this whole project, And it’s somewhat depressing.

I’ll start at the beginning of this project, it started when I saw DOMINION:PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST.
it was a bootleg dvd, that I had paid $30 for and took nearly a month to receive it, I put it in the player, and the Movie starts with the opening Title fadeing away, I could barely make it out, but I was pissed, the studio was actually dumb enough to put “PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST” on screen.
it was an ugly camcorder version with sound problems, it was often hard to makeout objects onscreen, Big fat Pixels
all over the place it was so bad I couldn’t see how bad the cgi was.
But I loved the Movie itself, not wasn’t perfect, only a few come close, but I really Loved the Movie and felt Moved by the fact that here was an attempt to Make a real movie again, not a piece of shit like most of these horror movies these days.
I realized that this is not traditional Prequel, It Sets the stage for the Exorcist, but aside from that it is a Stand alone movie in it’s own rite.

I waited outside BEST BUY, the day the official DVD was releasd, I was practicly the first Customer, and I bought my copy, and eagerly watched it, The Picture quality was beautiful, and rich colors, of course I finally saw the bad CGI and etc.

when it was over I thought this has some things that get on my nerves, The movies Subtitle, of course the bad CGI, but also the opening scene looked to bright an sunny and warm, even though it’s not supposed to be that way, then their were other little things etc.

I had been Video editing as a Hobby for a couple of years, and I decided to see if some of my ideas would work, I spent several weeks doing this, but I realised this could work if done properly, Then I spent the next couple months Experimenting, Developing some ideas and so on.

I had been viewing this websie since I first herd of the Prequel getting Greenlit and having neeson in it.
I read what people had to say about this Movie, I Finally decided to atempt
a FAN CUT of this film, I started work on what has become months of hell.
My constant problem was that I didn’t know much about compressing video files, A Problem I solved a couple months ago, But I kept redoing things because it looked or sounded like shit.
I was trying to use ideas from Fans, Some of them though are impossible, then I would try to make certain shots work and would spend weeks trying to do it, this went on for a while, eventually I found a way of compressing the footage that was atleast better than that damn bootleg dvd, and I had done about 40-45 minutes of footage that I felt at the time was good enough, then a few months ago my computer crashed and Lost most of my work because it wasn’t properly backed up, Then I had to start from scratch again, Then things started working, not very fast, but it was happening, and I finally found A form of compression that worked for me, then recently My computer started having some problems again, and I took a break to fix it, but at the same time I looked at all my footage, which I think is good, but falls short in many ways, then I watched the Official DVD of Dominion all the way through for the first time in since before summer, which brings me to where Im at now.

since ive taken a fresh look at Dominion again, I actually actually see where I fucked up, Ive tried too hard, Ive over done and over exhausted myself, I watch my footge in total darkness and see all kinds of picture problems caused by some things ive done, but they look their worst during night scenes, when a character walks by they have a white ghostlike shadow that follows them, and so do other images, but of course this is in the night scenes, And I found the Problem.

Again Im the problem I was trying to go in such an ambitious direction, I got carried away by the fact that I could make certain changes, I didn’t stop to think if I should.
Ive Recolorized almost every scene, I made others too dark it causes the gostlike effect.

Im still Pleased with alot of the new sounds, Fx and such, and my basic direction. But The reason It takes so long to do anything is because Ive done so much recolorizing, and tharequires not just cutting uo scenes but even shots within the scene, and then makeing things match.

All this Recolorizing has been tottaly unecesisarry and stupid, sure a couple scenes could use it but thats it, If I kept most of the coloring(which is fine) then Most of these cuts Ive made would not be needed, Ive spent weeks at a time recoloring scenes.

Im exhausted, warn out, and feel like croaking.
But I stoped and rememberd what to me is the maijor theme in the movie, REDEMPTION!
We loose hope, we dispair, But as Long as we are still breathing than we have a chance to change the path were on.

What I would Like to do is take a rest for about a week, Then begin again, but Use my current footage is a gudluine to most of my good changes that I want to keep, But I Want to keep most of the movies natuaral color, I don’t want to darken scenes that don’t need it.
The Reaseon I still have Faith in this is the fact that since I started this project Ive Learned so much about editing, Ive devloped my own unique methods, in recent months I solved the compression problem.
I think if I rested for a little while, and then just Keep most things intact except for key Changes and elements, this is something I could Probably do within 2 months.

It’s Paul’s Film, Im Just supposed to be Polishing it, not cutting it to pieces and the blindly stitching it
back together.

Well???????????????