Saturday, June 20, 2009

I Will Find You... And I Will Blog About You

So the DVD was "supposed" to come out yesterday... but who's really keeping track, right?  Besides, it was in everyone's best interest that I let it slip an extra day or so.  I was at my computer at midnight (I claim to operate on Pacific Standard Time still, so no prob) and ready to burn the first disc, but then I got thinking.  The data quota bar said I had crammed 4.1 gigs onto the DVD -- quite full, and substantially more than I customarily put on any DVD.  But then, a DVD's capacity is 4.7 gigabytes...  and with over half a gigabyte to spare, why export quite yet when I could search for some extra clips to fill the extra space with?

There began a frantic, late-night hunt for bonus content and easter eggs -- little video treasures that are essentially pointless, but give you DVD hounds a tad bit extra to search your disc for, and hopefully get some mild enjoyment out of.

Unfortunately, it came to my immediate attention that we have very little extra to offer in the way of additional content.  I searched my drive, repeatedly, and came to this startling and unpleasant conclusion: we need to make more movies.

Unbelievably, just about everything I have has either been used on a previous disc, was put onto this disc, or is due to be placed onto a future disc.  After much fruitless scouring, I could find very little to offer in the way of bonus clips and easter eggs.  I was up until 5 AM re-editing an old, unfinished clip from last summer, then begged a side-short off pal Nathan Morse to also add.  I've got maybe one or two other small things to dub or re-edit and throw on, but the point is clear: we're scraping the bottom of the barrel here to fill up that last half a gig, and it's probably going to show.

Thankfully, the solution is simple: time to get out there with a camera and make more movies.  But with summer work and a move to LA in the quite-near future, making new films may have to go on hold for a bit.

Don't expect The Fungus-Ridden Collection Volume 4 anytime in the near future.

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