1. Final Cut and Cast and Crew Party

    How time flies! It was a year ago when Rae, Rae’s parents, JP, and I travelled to China to start production on Autumn Gem. Earlier last month, we’ve completed the final cut of the film. Tomorrow afternoon, we’ll be showing it to the first time at our cast and crew screening party! An so begins [...]

  2. Upcoming Screenings

    Here is a list of upcoming screenings of AUTUMN GEM: March 2010 March 2: University of California, Irvine. Location: McCormick Film Screening Room, Humanities Gateway 1070. Time: 7:00pm. March 13: Willow Glen Public Library. Location: 1157 Minnesota Ave., San Jose, CA. Time: 1:00pm March 23: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Location: Barrick Museum Auditorium, 4505 [...]

  3. How I Learned to Hate Scrolling Credits

    One of the very last things to complete with Autumn Gem has been the final credits sequence. I’ve been struggling mightily over the past few weeks trying to get the credits to scroll properly without jerkiness or stuttering. I’ve read all of the forums and tried many of the tips and tricks people have suggested, [...]

  4. Subtitles

    While we finish up the audio mixing with Matt this week, we decided to make a change to the look of our subtitles in Autumn Gem. Up until today, we’ve been using Final Cut’s standard Text generator to create our subtitles. Here’s a screenshot of what our subtitles used to look like: This afternoon, I [...]