I spent a lot of my Christmas vacation at Rockhouse Cinema, going through Avid training. Kenny has the system pretty tricked out and it’s the smoothest editing system I have worked on. It’s so fast that it makes editing almost like typing in a word processor. No lag time. It just works. I’m sure a properly set up Final Cut rig would be just as fast, but there’s something kind of cool about cutting on an Avid. It’s always been way out of my price range and therefore somewhat mysterious.
As I was deep in editing, I suddenly realized that it was December 28th. The date may not mean much to you, but I will always remember it as the night we first screened Sex Machine at Galileo’s. It was the 2 year anniversary. Strangely enough, we already had made plans to go to Galileo’s later that night.
Thinking back to that day two years ago filled me with mixed emotions. It was one of the most stressful times in my life, but my memories of that time are so vivid. I had dropped off Shogo at the airport - bound for Japan - just a day earlier.After weeks of post-production, editing, sound and color correction, we were literally finishing the movie the day of the screening. We dropped the opening credits into the time line that morning. Then, we set Final Cut Pro to output to tape, loaded up a truck and drove to Galileo’s to put up the screen and speakers. Then we drove back, checked the tape, took showers and went to the screening. At first, I thought it would be impossible to watch the movie with an audience, but I ended up enjoying the hell out of it - and the audience seemed to have a great time as well.
It was strange to be back at Galileo’s on the 2 year anniversary. If you had asked me back then, I would have guaranteed you we would have finished another feature by this time. But we haven’t.
We have accomplished a lot — but not enough.
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