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The last work i did on the DOTD composite edit was around the 1st of July. Around
that time I got really busy with other things and it got put to one side (that then
became quite a long way to one side!) then I had other pet projects that came &
went and I didn't come back to it.
So here we are! When I'd left it I had all the video edited and I was going through
the audio trying to make that work, I got as far as around 13mins in. The most difficult
bit so far was the section from wooley going nuts up to the start of the talk between
peter & roger after the swat guy shoots himself. In that section each of the 3 versions
has a different backing music and I was switching between them almost shot to shot.
In the end i had to rubber band out all the audio, overlay one backing track from the
score CD across the whole sequence, then rubber band back in any speech or sound
effects i could seperate out enough from their backing tracks so that you wouldn't
notice. Then using a pile of sound effects CDs i had to add in some more of the missing
sound effects, copy and paste in some sound effects and bits of background speech from
elsewhere in the audio tracks and then add ambience noise to fill it all out. I even had to
record myself making zombie noises (!) to use for the sequence when the footless and the
female zombie attack in the appartment as it was too quiet to seperate any of the existing
noises from their music backing track. After all that it still needs more work to smooth it out.
And all that after only 13 mins! having done that I think it is do-able, not an impossible task.
It'll just take a whole stack of time. At the moment its sitting on my hard drive so I can
re-start it whenever I want. I'll have a go this week, I dont mind doing short sections like
the one above with longer simpler sections inbetween but if i have to painstakingly work
though the the entire 2-1/2 hours doing that I'm not sure it won't go back off to one
side again... for a couple of months... very quickly!