Listening to the Surround Sound version of the audio for COVID Dystopia was a thrill. There are things I would like to change but there is no time. I had to render the film and send it off to CineSent to get the Digital Cinema Package made so I can get it to the film festival.
Uploading the film onto the CineSent site took forever. The window said it was encoding and check back in a minute. That minute took hours and I finally decided to go to bed and hope the file had uploaded by then.
This morning the file was ready and I sent it off to be made into a DCP. There are tech issues with my film that I hope they can resolve. I animated the entire film at 29.97 frames per second. Cinema projectors only work at 24fps. 25fps or 30 fps. I suspect they will make my film run at 30fps which will speed it up slightly. I don’t know if that will effect the sound track.
I converted one shot to 24fps in the Premiere Pro timeline and the shot played in slow motion. I am wondering if I will need to eventually go through every shot and change the fps to 24 and also change the speed of the clips to get it back to the speed I animated them at. If there are problems at the lab making the DCP I assume I will hear from them. Choices made on the first day of production are coming back to haunt me now. Should I decide to make another animated film I would do so many things differently. I will only find out how the DCP plays on the first week of April when COVID Dystopia plays on the big screen.