THAT WHICH I LOVE DESTROYS ME

THAT WHICH I LOVE DESTROYS ME is a documentary film focusing on PTSD that I edited for director Ric Roman Waugh. On October 25th 2014, The Austin Film Festival hosted the first public screening of the film.

You can find out more here.

On July 10th the film screened at the US Capitol Building in Washington D.C. for all of Congress and a group of Wounded Warriors. TWILDM was shot over 5 years and follows two special forces soldiers who struggle with PTSD as they reintegrate back into society.

I edited this project entirely in Adobe Premiere Pro and exported the Blu Ray and back up h.264 file with the new 8.1 update for delivery to The Austin Film Festival. I also created a DCP straight out of Premiere Pro and ran the Quality Control at DELUXE in Burbank.

The DCP was tested at Deluxe Lab in Burbank

The legendary DELUXE approved the DCP

Last year, this DCP export would have been much more complicated to generate…but now it’s a simple click to export.

The DCP export screen from Premiere Pro CC

The DCP export from Adobe Premiere Pro and Media Encoder

I spent 14 months editing with director Ric Roman Waugh. We had hundreds of hours of footage from over 9 different camera formats and codecs. All of this was done natively in Premiere Pro with no transcoding. The final locked picture edit was the 46th version of the ever evolving story we strove to tell.

There is no greater feeling for a film editor than to announce that “the film is locked”. The next announcement is “Hand me an adult beverage…I’m going to bed”. Here’s what the final timeline looked like on the day we locked.