25122019

Started working on post-processing on the trailer. It was an incredibly taxing process just to get everything set up as not only did I have to familiarise myself with the basics of Premiere but I had to acquire a copy of it in the first place, which turned out to be an entire ordeal on its own as I needed the most recent version which was frustratingly difficult to obtain for fairly obvious reasons. Well, in any case, I was able to finally get everything set up. After working on it for a few hours it’s become increasingly apparent that my hardware is just not up to task to handle tasks like video editing in any respectably efficient manner: rendering performance is pretty horrendous across the board and things like overlay effects – the bulk of my work heretofore – are almost prohibitively taxing. Nevertheless, as Sawyer’s fallen sick somehow and isn’t available to work anyways, I’ve gotta take over…