In a post a couple of weeks ago, I said that at 51 minutes the rough cut of Xana and Dax was too long, and Ell wanted to know “How do you know it’s too long TC? What’s the formula?” All I could answer was that every time I looked at it I saw stuff that need to come out. I also speculated that when I locked the edit it would be about 45 minutes.

Between then and now I sent out another, slightly shorter cut to my brain trust and recieved some very insightful and helpful feedback. Armed with that, I worked on it off and on last week, fairly certain that I was only a few hours away from locking the edit. Today was Mrs.C’s first day back from her self-imposed exile. I had a new version waiting for her that I felt was 99 44/100 there. We went over it, made a couple of adjustments and then declared the edit locked. Well guess what. After our last round of tweaking and tuning, the running time is 45 minutes 2 seconds.

Don’t ask me how things like this happen, because I don’t know. What I do know is that they happen often enough that it can’t be sheer chance. Wish wanting, or an instinctive sense of time perhaps. But as often as not I’ll take a guess at a final run time and be within one or two percent.

Just a reminder, our special pre-order price on Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract is only good until the disc goes out for replication, which at this point is going be in the next day or so. After that it goes up to $24.95, which is still a heck of a good deal on an absolutely unique and apparently very “inspiring” erotic film.

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