I got version 0.2 of "The
Barrier" done this week. This version runs 87 minutes. That was about
a minute longer that the previous
version. I cleaned up some more video glitches and added some sound
effects.
The full version of the movie took a long time to out put,
and I had to leave it overnight. The final run time was something like 18
hours.
After it had run I did an investigation to see if there was
a way to speed it up. It turned out that the default power settings were for a
laptop on batteries. The computer would go to sleep after about 20 minutes.
When it was sleeping, the program ran very slowly or maybe not at all. I
changed the settings, so it won't do that anymore. I haven't retried the same
output, but I think the problem is solved. It does seem to let the programs run
faster.
My plan was not to do anything about the sound track for
this version. However, there were a couple of places where it is hard to
understand what was going on, so I did those. I did a few other sound effects
at the same time.
I found and fixed some more video glitches. When I watch the
movie again, I won't be too surprised if I find a few more. I found one scene
where I hadn't put in the computer scenes. I must have missed that when I went
through the scenes earlier.
The next stage is to show the movie to my wife. We sat down
to watch it the other day, but she hadn't realized that it ran an hour and a
half. She thought it was like most of movies and was only 3 or 4 minutes long.
She said she'd have time to watch Sunday. If she likes it I'll move on to the
next version.
I've noticed some problems with the movie that I can't fix
unless I redo it from scratch on a replacement for Xtranormal. I had planned to
post the movie as a work in progress, but it looks like I won't be able to
develop it as far as I would have liked. That said, I do think I should have a
watchable movie.
I want to do a blog where I talk about what I'd like to
change with the version I post.
I believe that this will be the first movie ever made where
transportation planning is an important part of the story, and not just an
interesting detail of one character.
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