Fresh off the heels of Ryan flying all the way from Florida to participate in the recording of a commentary for a new DVD of our second movie, The Robert Cake--a DVD that would feature improved video and audio quality--the hard drive containing the movie has smoked itself out of this world. That's right, Anthony plugged the external drive in, smelled smoke and then it was gone. Forever.
A moment of silence.
Nothing short of an extremely costly data recovery service can bring the final render of our movie back from the dead.
What we're left with now is,
1. The compiled DVD of the movie that we already have and have had for years, but it cannot be changed in any way, just burned into more of the same old DVD. (So, atleast the movies still EXISTS.)
2. The digitized original takes of every shot in the movie, that could be used to re-edit the film from the ground up, BUT there would be no humanly way that every single cut would be exactly as it was in the original version and impossible to do without resisting vast improvements over the original... both things adding up to a movie that does not sync with our newly recorded commentary--or many songs in the movie's score for that matter!
So, for now... let's all move on with our lives.
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