I can’t begin to tell you how happy and excited I am about this long-awaited turn of events.
Two years ago, as many of you probably know, I started this massive multi-editor project called The Transmissions Project – also known as TTP. An entire album spanning the course of one hour, edited by all of us. This project aimed to bring together editors to work on something never seen before in the community. And, for the most part, the whole thing was a great success!
During post-production, however, everything went horribly wrong.
Both my laptop and the external hard drive that held this project in its entirety corrupted, and I lost EVERYTHING (and not just TTP, but 6 years-worth of my own personal work). I had never been more devastated. I believed we could recover it if we worked together, but it didn’t come to pass. I left the community for a while to gather my thoughts and redirect my creative outlets – I needed time to grieve for TTP (I’m laughing right now; it doesn’t feel so dramatic anymore) as well as focus on real life stuff.
But I never threw that hard drive away. I believed I could fix it – I believed I could do SOMETHING. For the past few years, on and off, I tinkered with that hard drive. I came close a couple of times to restoring all the files, but many of them were still irreparable. In the meantime, I had to announce the official cancellation of the project, which broke my heart even more. If you’re wondering why this was so devastating for me, it’s because this was an idea I’d had for a LONG time. It had always been one of my main goals and I had almost achieved it – and failed. And I felt like I had failed all the editors who stuck by me through the project and put in so much time and hard work.
People were asking me about TTP – what happened to it? Can we fix it? Do you need any help? Will we ever see the finished video? And I had to keep turning you all away, even though I appreciated all of the concern and support that I received in regards to this project. I’ll be forever grateful for that!
And then, for the first time in a long while, someone mentioned TTP. And my brain went into overdrive. I decided to give it one more try, and if it didn’t work then I was willing to give up on it for good. It took over 24 hours, two recovery data programs, and a lot of perseverance. Finally, The Transmissions Project had been completely recovered, and after a month of pulling it together it’s here for all of you to see.
I could not be more happy and excited that this project finally sees the light of day, and that everyone’s hard work has ultimately paid off. This video was made by the editors for the editors, and one of my goals throughout this was to bring editors of all different skill sets to the forefront and work together as one. I feel like this is an achievement to be truly proud of.
That being said, I’d like to make a few disclaimers:
During the project’s recovery, a total of 8 parts were lost. If you recognise any of these parts as ones you originally edited, then I offer my apologies. Not only did I lose the complete list of participants, and therefore could not find the original editor, but it was easier to replace the parts myself. This does not discredit your participation.
If you recognise any of your parts to be of lower quality than when you made them, then I apologise again. During the recovery process, and putting it all together, some files suffered and I couldn’t find a way to fix them.
Some audio throughout the video is not as smooth as I originally intended. Again, this is a result of recovering the files, and I had to work with what I had as best as I could. I made a conscious decision to take out some parts between songs that didn’t work anymore, or that I had lost the original audio files for. To save time, I did not feel the need to start the audio files from scratch, and I personally think it turned out pretty well.
Last but not least, if you took part in this project and want to be credited, please tell me in the comments so that I can add you to the list and pin it at the top of the comments section. I lost the participant list and a lot of names have changed since then, so I would like to make sure that everyone is credited for what they have done in this project.
I would like to give a big thank you to my partners in crime – Zombie and Thea – for all of the help and support they have given me since I recovered this project. Not only did you guys help me to replace missing parts, but you shared excitement and enthusiasm with me in getting this project back on track, and pointed me in the right direction for everything I could need to make putting this thing together as easy as possible. I don’t know what I would do without you both!
Well, guys, it’s been a long and tasking journey. Getting to this point has been super emotional and frustrating for me, and once I’d finished watching the whole thing through I actually teared up. I’m so glad I didn’t give up – it took a long time, but here we are, and here it is. The Transmissions Project in its entirety. Thank you, and enjoy.
(Post-upload note: Unfortunately, the hour long version would not work on youtube, so it has been cut into 3 parts. It’s not how I wanted it go, but at this point I’ll take it.)
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