the journal of Peter John Ross

With the few clips the students helped edit, I was able to finalize 3 full episodes of FRAMELINES last night. I had just a few minutes of airtime to fill and the last couple videos on MOVIE SET JOB DESCRIPTIONS Read more…

I walked 4 miles today. It was over 65 degrees today in Ohio on January 12th. If that wasn’t a record, then I’d be terrified about the temperature when it was hotter than this. In the meantime an intern worked Read more…

I like to emulate the workflows and pipeline of how larger post production facilities operate. If we ever get the workload increases I am planning on, we’ll need to maintain organization and file structures so that when more than a Read more…

Got some ADR recorded last night. I remember when I did this 2nd film project, I did not like ADR. I thought I would prefer the bad audio and good performance over the over-clean audio with all it’s lack of Read more…

My new laptop kicks ass. I was able to edit full 1080P 23.976 300 Megs Per Second HD AVI files in my Matrox Intermediate codec with no effort. Adobe CS5.5 still rocking it in Premiere Pro and even After Effects Read more…

Insomnia sucks. I get bouts of this every now and then. Tossing and turning, unable to sleep, nothing on TV keeps your attention, thoughts flee and hide from coherency. All while you know you have to get up early the Read more…

I ate an entire pizza yesterday. I haven’t done that in a really long time. I nearly drowned in Coca-Cola to wash it down. I felt so bad, I went for a 2 mile walk in 17 degree weather to Read more…

As I gear up to do another feature film in the not so distant future, I’m making a tour of indie films that inspired me. Last night was Doug Liman’s SWINGERS, written and produced and starring Jon Favreau. Tonight will Read more…

Okay, it’s official. I’m back, baby. I’ve got several things editing, which means I’ll have something to promote, and I love getting the stuff out there. FRAMELINES is great because it promotes not me, but the work of others. It’s Read more…

They say what you do on New Years Eve will be indicative of what you will be doing the rest of the year. What a crock! Even if it’s true, I’ll spend my year with a good friend, talking and Read more…

Ah, how coincidental the titles of my blogs lately have simply been the titles of every Led Zeppelin song and yet they match the subject more often than not. On this blog, I have almost always done an end of Read more…

So yesterday, due to illness, was one of the first over-12-hours edit sessions I’ve done at home in years. Kitten Lorenzo brought a record number of cat toys to the basement, and Vladimir Jack Bauer laid on top of my Read more…