FINISHED

I finished my absolute final edits on Time of the Robots last night, and a previewable DVD it is now ready to go to film festivals, beginning with entry to Sundance tomorrow morning.

It is a typical "Indian Summer" in Seattle today, hot and humid in September after a very weak summer during the actual summer months. The window is wide open and the air smells of smoke from the bonfires people are holding on the beach nearby. The smell is sort of nice, but the air is very thick and there's a toxic, choking element to the smell as well.
But that's neither here nor there...

As much as I like to do things at home, my own (cheap) way, I ended up going to a big post house in town to get my final DVD made.  I had been making them on my computer, but it seemed like the old thing was straining under the stress of converting the FCP files to Quicktime then compressing them then burning them to DVD, and that stress was affecting the film (I think that's what it was, it's hard to prove either way).

The problem was that I could not rely on the film coming out at extactly the right playing speed each time I made a new DVD. This was a major, major problem, so I talked to my friend Apple expert Gordon Modin about this, and he thought it might be there was not enough free RAM.
I unloaded a bunch of things to my portable harddrive, but still... it was still a bit shaky.

So I decided to invest in a little pro treatment with Modern Digital.

It was totally worth it. I stopped sweating immediatly after I heard they could squeeze me in.

I registered the project on Withoutabox (imdb) and goes to Fed Ex first thing tomorrow morning, for Monday delivery at Sundance.

And then, we shall see what people think of my little space opera.