Computer woes

Don't you just love computers? They have made our lives so much easier, make us wiser with instant access to worldwide knowledge, speed things up with instant access... until they go wrong.

For me, weeks of work were lost with one pop of a file. I've had to redo a lot of the editing I'd been working on this year. However, although I haven't slept in days and the work is painstaking, the end result will probably be better because of the wipe.

I used to get excited towards the end of writing my novels and forget to save as I wrote the last chapter. Time after time, the little Amstrad word processor I used would gobble up all the pages as if it wanted to break my little heart. Still, I'd stoically rewrite the last chapter (at least) from scratch. I like to tell myself that the second draft was always better.

So it is with movie editing - the second version is tighter and more cinematic. I hope. But this go round, I'm saving my work each time I edit a shot.