The subtitles are finished!

I sincerely hope I have just powered down Final Cut Pro (the beastly film editing software we have used to edit The Road to Fondwa) for the last time in my life.

Final Cut Pro and I have had a bit of a strained relationship.

You see, I thought I was a pretty smart guy, getting a brilliant filmmaker like Justin Brandon to come and make a film with us in Haiti.

I could be the idea guy, and the film would just “happen.”

Didn’t quite turn out that way!

Once we had over 40 hours of incredible footage from throughout Haiti, we sat down at Danny’s home in Boston to watch it through. That’s when we realized how difficult it would be for Justin to edit the film… since he doesn’t speak Haitian Creole!

95% of our footage was in a language that our editor didn’t understand.

So we took stock of the situation… and resorted to desperate measures.

Danny and I each picked up a MacBook Pro so we could use Final Cut Pro. We each learned how to use at least the remedial functions (Danny ended up really getting the hang of it), and we worked on the film as a team.

That’s why we now have a film that all three of us feel is “ours”… but Final Cut Pro still has to go!

I may ceremoniously delete it from my computer after we ship the DVD off for duplication

-Brian