The DVDs that will never be
So I’ve yet to tell anyone outside of the AMF crew about this, but we had a little problem finalizing our DVD collection.
No, the problem isn’t the fact that I’m horribly, horribly lazy. Okay well, yes, that was the problem until just a few months ago. But now the more permanent problem is that I experienced a hard drive crash.
Yes, it’s unfortunate to say, but the hard drive containing the master copies of all my films crashed earlier this year. I lost almost every film I’ve ever made. I wasn’t so depressed about it at first, because hey, the films aren’t that great. And plus, you should always look forward to your next film instead of dwelling on how the old ones could’ve been better. But it is rather sad that my films now only exist in compressed QuickTime format. I’ll never have a native format copy of SUPERHEROES or TMTTTJ, or anything else.
Now before certain people start having a heart attack (Mr. Adam Bertocci), there are some exceptions. Not all of my native DV master copies were contained on that hard drive. The Dingle and the Diet Coke parody were on a different hard drive, so they’re safe. I found an existing DVD copy of Murder Most Fowl, and I’m fairly sure The Last Patrol is laying around here somewhere. SUPERHEROES hit the hardest. I had finally completed the DVD with menus, commentary, delete scenes and behind the scenes footage. And now that’s all gone. Most of it I can’t recover.
I’ve yet to scour my vast MiniDV tape library, but I’m pretty sure nothing is completed and on tape. I was rather stupid when I shot these films and that coupled with my lack of income drove me to re-use tapes. So absolutely no raw footage exists, and rarely did I dub my masters back to tape. Oh well, you live and learn I guess! What I do have left from my efforts to compile a DVD collection will slowly be released on this Web site. This will include old trailers, posters, and most entertaining of all: the DVD commentaries that Andrew, Jared and myself recorded last year… for nearly every film.
Check back tomorrow for our Infestation commentary!
Silly question — have you gone to one of those hard-drive-repair-recovery-specialist businesses?
I mean, it could come to a few hundred bucks all told if they can save it, but… it’s worth a try.
Yeah, unfortunately I tried that and … no dice.
Jun 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
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