Q: Can you drop some more mad hints and give us an idea on how close you are to finishing the new History of [blank] video? The last one that really gave us an idea of the progress you made was a checklist comparing it to the one for history of Japan.
A: the 'graphics' phase was finished on feb 7. after that, the process is a little bit more confusing to explain. it's a lot of smaller things -- final narration, jingle vocals, editing jingles and narration, mixing, re-alignment to fit final narration timing, and the score. the score is the most subtantial item of all of those, but not as large as 'graphics.' it is hard to exactly explain the process because i have been bouncing around depending on whether it's day or night (vocal recording, etc) and also i was sick and had lingering sick voice for a couple weeks, so during that time i made an early detour into doing the score, somewhere around feb 19. so i basically locked up the narration timing up until 7:50 (that was as far as i had gotten) and started on the score. by the time i reached 7:50 in the score (this was around march 2 i guess), i was able to resume vocals, and was bouncing around between doing jingles and narration.  narration is now solidly in place with correct timing, video re-alignment to fit that new timing is done, now starting on the rest of the score, from 8min to the end. once the score is done, it is just the small little tasks like year labels, other labels, graphics adjustments, mixing, etc etc etc but these small tasks tend to fly by very fast, and once the score is done it tends to be a slippery slope to the end of the process. this is what i know from experience on doing the previous long video of this type. i hope that makes sense