Whew, big relief. After hand-adjusting the look of every clip, I've finally seen the results on my TV and am satisfied with 99% of it. I probably boosted the brightness a bit too much on the Elbo Room show and the Happy Palace show, both of which were shot in very low light. Now the footage looks more grainy than it needs to, although it will be impossible to completely remove the graininess.

The DVD menus look fine, and the photo gallery works great. So I've only got a few more tweaks and then subtitles to go!

The DVD will have a photo gallery with 25 shots from the tour. This was an interesting learning experience, because it turns out that NTSC TV pixels are not square like the pixels on my computer and camera. Sadly I learned this only after cropping them all the wrong way, so I had to redo them all.

This turned out to be a good thing anyway, because the photos probably would have had some flicker to them on real television sets. NTSC doesn't have the full dynamic range of a computer, so I also had to apply a "broadcast-color" filter to the images as well.

Pretty much all that's left now is to make the optional subtitles.

Color correction is complete now for the entire movie, although I saved the last one-percent in the progress meter for final proofing on a real TV.

Seven chapters are now color-corrected, so that only the last day remains. I still have to see how things look on a real TV before I'm convinced that I haven't destroyed the way things look. That would mean that I'd have to revisit everything all over again and lower the contrast. It's a fear but I'm trying to be optimistic.

I tweaked a couple more things in the credits, and now think it's safe to say they're 100 percent finished.

Previously I'd said that I was more happy with the overall look of the footage than I'd expected, and that is still true. But after doing some comparisons with some of my favorite DVDs, I think that the movie still needs a little bit of color correction.

The good news is that it's a pretty quick process, basically just cranking up the contrast on each clip a little bit. This makes the blacks look black, instead of gray, and also makes for a more pleasing image overall.

Hopefully I haven't gone too far.

This afternoon I went through the first half of the movie and adjusted every single clip. So I'm demoting the color correction progress meter from 75% to 50%, but it's actually an improvement from the last time.