Week 543: A New Era Distributes

Weekly Written Review 

After spending most of last week rendering and uploading, this week I received a failure notice from the company. Thankfully the errors are simple but the long arduous process of rendering and uploading had to be repeated. What can you say? You live and you learn. The most sentimental moment of this week was when I made my series private on YouTube. I'm all in. My story is ready to live somewhere else. There's no turning back. My time is now! 

Sunday, February 7, 2021

* Superbowl Sunday. Go Bucs! 

* Music cue sheet development... - day 55

* Editing demos, artwork...

* C&B description work...

Monday, February 8, 2021

* Adding/uploading captions success... - day 56

* Waiting on A... network...

* Updated C&B script sent.,.

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

* Music license received... - day 57

* Series submitted for distribution...

* Removed The Late Night Experiment episodes publicly from YouTube. 

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

* Returned home...

* Spent most of the day sleeping... - day 58

* Distribution failure notice. Back to work, fixing/editing. 

* Started rendering again...

Thursday, February 11, 2021

* Rendering... - day 59

* Potential game show recruitment...

* Good sleep...

* EDD fighting.


Friday, February 12, 2021

*Tennis...

* EDD call battles. Success, I think. 

* Uploading restart. Using four computers again. - day 60

* C&B auditions due...

Saturday, February 13, 2021

* Uploading continues... - day 61

* My autobio was permeating my mind a lot today... 


As the quest continues...

The future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Week 542: Wash, Rinse, Rerender, Upload Slowly

 Weekly Written Review 

As much as I enjoy my series, after reviewing it three times, I was done with the process. There are always more adjustments to be made but when you're wearing so many hats at some point you just got to move on. Next phase, rendering. My first batch ended up being the wrong format. As a result, I had to render again. That's a 24hr process. I figured it was smooth sailing after that and I was grossly wrong. It took 3 days and four computers to upload 11 files. That was supposed to provide relief but it was only temporary. Tune in next week and find out what I had to do all over again. 

Sunday, January 31, 2021

* Last review completed, done around 7:30pm - day 49

* Started rendering...

* Watching Mandalorian...

Monday, February 1, 2021

* Render fail/wrong format for uploading. Started rerendering 7:330pm- day 50

* Sprouts run...

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

* Render completed, 7:00am - day 51

* Started uploading, taking forever...

* Began using 4 computers...

* Ran 1.4 miles...

* Blogging...


Wednesday, February 3, 2021

* C&B revisions...

* Uploading files - day 52

* Last min reedit for S3Ep3. Wasn't worth taking a chance with copyright music in the background. Turned out better than the original. Wasn't expecting that. 

Thursday, February 4, 2021

* C&B revisions. Not too much but made a great discovery. 

* Uploading completed. - day 53

* Demo/trailer completed/strong first draft...

* Chasing down the EDD...

Friday, February 5, 2021

* Tennis...

* Call with A... network - day 54

* C&B Revisions...

* CLN submission on ISA...

* Request for RAD from K...

Saturday, February 6, 2021

* Brawlhalla tournament...

* C&B revisions completed...

* Watching Spartacus. I think we watched the series finale today. Overall, it was a great journey. 

* Transfering files...

As the quest continues...

The future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Week 541: Errors Never End

 Weekly Written Review 

After reviewing my series with my post-production supervisor, I thought we found all the errors but I was very wrong. I choose to review it one last time by myself when I was done with my supervisor and behold more errors and fixes needed. It seems like it never ends. Once I completed this last review on Sunday (Week 542) I decided to not look back. If there's another closed-caption error or color/sound issue, I'm just going to have to live with it. In between fixes, I embraced the spiriting of giving this week. I paid back a person I owed money over 10 years ago, blessed a few good people supported couple of people. Amen. 

Sunday, January 24, 2021

* Remaster/rendering continues/edit/ Superviser review - day 42

* Trader Joe's run...

* C&B planning...

* Watching Spartacus...

Monday, January 25, 2021

* Watching Mandalorian ...

* Remastering/Supervisor review. - day 43

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

* Watching transformers

* Remastering/Supervisor review - day 44

* The spiriting of giving day

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

* Watching transfering

* RIP Michael Williams

* Remastering/Superviser review completed with season 5 & 6 - day 45


Thursday, January 28, 2021

* Remastering/final review/season 1 &2/finding more errors - day 46

Friday, January 29, 2021

* Watching Mandalorian

* Remastering/final review/season 3 - day 47


Saturday, January 30, 2021

* Walk to Ralphs, making phone calls

* Remastering/final review/ season 4 & 5 - day 48


As the quest continues...

The future of Late Night

Motown Maurice

Week 540: Weather is Great and so is Progress

 Weekly Written Review 

Remastering a 5 and a 1/2 hour series ain't easy. It takes a lot of time, patience, and battle skills. I spent countless hours fighting against the closed caption monster. Captions have actually been the toughest part. Imagine spending hours typing, only to realize that the text constantly becomes un-sync.  Talk about defeat. It took forever to figure it out and when I did, it was a relief. The irony is, I figured it out with a program I got rid of more than once. Everyone online wrote highly about Subtitle Title but it wasn't operating the way I wanted it to. As a result,  I uninstalled it twice. Desperation calls for a third try and the program started to make sense since when I finally learned the process of delivering captions. I didn't know the video and the captions had to be handed over separately. Once that knowledge was confirmed, I began to fight less and love again. Overall, I made a lot of great progress this week with the remaster I'm thankful that the weather has been great. When it's cold outside, it's freezing in my garage. That hasn't been the case lately. Thank the Lord.  

Sunday,  January 17, 2021

* New hard drive arrival

* Copying files/ remastering - day 35

* Watching Spartacus 

* Run 1.4 miles

* Bumble Bizing


Monday, January 18, 2021

* Blogging

* Remaster/reshooting a Virgin Mobile scene - day 36

* Great news from Galpin...

* Return home...


Tuesday, January 19, 2021

* Meeting with Katherine

* Flier design

* Remastering/closed captioning/ touch-ups

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

* Returning emails

* Remastering/closed captioning (S3 Ep1-2 & 3) - day 37

* Trailer script development


Thursday, January 21, 2021

* Remastering/closed captioning/ fully embraced subtitle edit/ it's working

Season 3 4 completed - day 38

Friday, January 22, 2021

* Tennis comeback of the century. Played a young lady for the first time and she took a 5-0 lead. I needed up beating her in a tie break. Also won in the second set 7-5. - day 39

* Closed caption completed (for the most part) season 5 & 6 - day 40


Saturday, January 23, 2021

* Galpin check pick up...

* Remastering/crediting/rendering review draft. 

Issues rendering a file but I solved the problem the next day. - day 41

As the quest continues...

The future of Late Night

Motown Maurice