Finished watching a motion picture - we're issuing the soundtrack in a few weeks. I really have never liked the album presentation and now it's quite clear why - it's horribly edited, with cues edited onto other cues in a senseless way. I took lots of notes and I now have to decide if I really want to take the time to have my mastering guy undo the edits (easy) and try to place things in film order (not so easy - there's a LOT of identifying to do and it will also render several cues very short, which they are in the film. That's not a big deal to me, as I'll have tight spaces between cues, but it's the sheer intricacy of it that I may not be able to deal with. Minimally I will do some of it - unfortunately, there are several cues in the film that aren't on the album at all, and that includes, I think, the end cue, although I'll have to go back now and see if it's edited onto another piece, which it may be. And the album track titles bear little relation to the film, so I'm definitely going to re-title everything.
But I think I came up with a fun idea about all this, which is to do this "new" version of the old album and then to include the entire old album sequence after the new version - that way, you get both and the CD is suddenly seventy minutes instead of thirty-five.
