Freekstorm VFX Blog

The title of this post says it all.

We have a week to go to the movie festival deadline. We are now on the final lap, and Rich was all set to do the sound this weekend. It's only a short film, so we were confident that the sound wouldn't take too long. Needless to say, our confidence was misplaced.

Unfortunately, it appears that Acid Pro 7 does not work on 64 bit PC’s. The program crashes constantly and it changes the playback speed of audio files, so the timing is inconsistent. Sony says Acid Pro 7 is Vista 64 Compatible, and we purchased the software a while ago on that basis. Now we discover that Sony does not guarantee stability on 64 bit. My opinion on this is quite vocal and unprintable here. Suffice to say, we wasted a lot of money on software which doesn’t work. Sony needs to fix Acid Pro 7c and issue a new version 7d with a specific Vista 64 bit driver. Our guess is that Sony won’t bother fixing this problem until v.8, then they can fleece customers for an upgrade charge.

However, our more immediate problem is: OMG! Our movie has no sound! We’re doomed, DOOMED, I tell you!!!

Solution: Rich is now trying Adobe Audition 3 on the 30 day trial. So far the signs are good (apart from the small problem that we can't afford it.)

Welcome to the uphill struggle that is “making an indie VFX movie.”

Filming the movie is the easy part. It’s battling the bloody software that causes the headaches.

Time to put up our resident British motivational sign, methinks.

Labels: problems, visual effects