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Well– despite the fact that I could really use a week with a RED, I didn’t have the winning cut on OpenCut 1. The winner, Carsten Karpanek, had a very good cut- which deserved to win. Susannah was actually the first narrative I’ve ever cut. It was a success for me in the sense that a 19yr old with no formal film education was able to hold his own.

OpenCut 2’s Registration is open now featuring 120fps material from Alpine Meadows and some time-lapses. I caught a glimpse of the material in the new Silverado reel posted on Tyler Berry’s blog. As a snowboarder, I look forward to getting my hands on the footage. There’s definitely some things I’m going to change in my workflow this time around:

1. Do a once-over in RedAlert before touching the footage in FCP.
2. Hire (Read As: Barter or Beg) a friend to do a mix.
3. Troubleshoot why Color Crashes whenever I send a project to it. (All CC was done in FCP last time)

This time around the registration changed up a little bit. I was excited at the proposition of a student entry, but the system passes people like me over. To run my company, I take classes online, therefore I don’t have a physical body to receive footage from. The costs went up- a little high for my tastes– but I can classify it as a business expense. I can’t state the previous statement without mentioning that the stakes for prizes also rose.
On a cool note, OC1 was submitted to the Guinness Word Records under the category of ‘greatest number of cinematic film edits from a single set of source media’ with that number being 51. OC2 aims to set the record for “greatest number of commercial spots from a single set of source media.”