Saturday, January 18, 2025

FIG Mastering, The Love Symphony Film, Bronowski Dream

A few scant things done. Compiled the first master to the new Fall in Green album. A few tracks needed rebalancing with minor changes, then the final volume balancing.

From 17:00, I looked again at the Love Symphony film. I thought it would be a nice idea to split the film into individual music tracks, making a video per-track. When I made the film in 2015, I deleted the source footage as it was considered too huge, only to re-find it years later (I had actually backed it up to an obscure hard drive). I think I have it all now.

For tracks 4 and 5 the editing was complicated by the minor issue that track 5 is a one-minute segue between the two album tracks, and the film merged tracks 4 and 5 into one. I used a simple edit to split the two. Track 3 and Track 9, however, would not load at all due to what is almost certainly an AviSynth+ v3.7.3 bug (I assume that the older AviSynth v2.60, which I made the films with, would still work, but I can't install both side-by-side). I still have the Track 3 edit from 2019, so this isn't a problem. I'll simply forget about editing Track 9 for now; and indeed forget about doing anything more while I consider what to do with these.

Generally, I feel lost and uncertain of direction at this akward time between projects. I dreamt of being lost in a car park, trying to find a bus or coach home from some distant tourist place, like Chester Zoo or Tatton Mansion. I also dreamt of working for Jacob Bronowski. I was in a team, and had to be up early, perhaps at 6am, and wear a shirt and tie for this unwelcome office job which I had to attend. I was aware that there were two similar teams of similar looking people, with similar names, each operating on opposite shifts.