When you work on a movie, there are supervisors and Directors and everything you do is projected on a big screen! The bar is set high! Every pixel is analyzed and scrutinized. And while I’m personally very proud of our Saber plug-in, I knew we needed to do better, but I didn’t fully understand what I was up against.Īfterwards, I figured out what had changed.

Knowing how much work needed to get done and hoping it will be worth it.Īfter-all some of the BEST FEATURES were added in, days before we released it.

I love making software, so even though we were running out of time, we needed these features! This was the ultimate stress test because we were adding and testing features under a lot of pressure and I must admit, it can be helpful. Not really an ideal way to approach a hard deadline.Īs I worked on the promo video to show off what the plug-in could do, I would say to myself: “We need better noise options”, “We need control over masking and glow order?”, “What if you could use Text Layers too!?”, “I need to create a specific look and we need to add distortion!”, “We need a preset manager!” It was OK but not up to the Video Copilot standards. After-all, it’s been so long since I had done something new, I wanted it to be REALLY COOL! But it needed more work. But while working on the promo video with my release date set, something seemed off. It started as a simple plug-in that would kick things off again. It was my first thing after getting out from underneath the visual effects tsunami of working on features. Whew! Now that I am focusing on Video Copilot Full-Time (YAY!!) I’ve noticed something different. Over the past year I had the opportunity to work on Star Wars, 10 Cloverfield Lane and more recently Star Trek Beyond (not titles this time).

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