simple solutions

after talking to avid (which i have to say was a pleasent experiance)
things are getting fixed.
they're products, marketing, swindeling, extortion and weirdness is trying
but it seems that if you talk to the tech guys, things get done.
kudos
the 40k doorstop was my ticket to the good stuff.
good thing we own acronis, otherwise we would have had to have bought it.
you should buy a least the workstation/client whatever version. best thing out there

today i was told to tell the CEO to get out of our room that we'd reserved.
i decided to wait him out... i went upstairs and got some hot green instead.
came back, got the press conf off and running and all was sweet.
went back to home base to work on the crud and stuff.

for some reason none of our marshalls want to work with our brand laptops... at least the ones we've picked for our shows. i thought that vga was vga. will wonders never cs

why can't i keep up on this?

and the gold goes to...

on a lighter note, i'm designing a studio for nasa
finally working for nasa...
i think i'm the only one i know that hasn't
i'll be sure not to shoot anyone, that's the job of the crew.

also met the chap that builds out the system for the olympics
i'm getting a tour before it ships out. sweeeeeet.

not too much video, more of a rant

well there was a film... or two
fog, bridge... whatever
a girl i know jumped. she was bound. i mourned.
i now have this morbid curiosity about the circumstances
where did she jump
day, night
was it caught on tape
girl afraid .... i'll say.
people say things on either side
bastardize, inflate...
she was she.
everyone that knew knew.
stupid sad.

illustrator

i'm needing to learn illustrator or some other vectory thing. for both a business idea and for a tattoo design. i know that i could hire an illustrator person for this stuff, but i've always been a diyer.

alright

so, i didn't look up the camers... they're old.. kill me. the should work as a second set of studio cams...

avid is annoying... we've got a thunder x-whatever that doesn't seem to work out of the box. of course there was some assembly required. anyway, channels are miss matched. channel 1 is realy channel 3, 2=1 and 1=2, com ports are all fracked up. it seems that getting any support for an 40k door jam is a bit like picking at a scab.

the big issue, now the the crashing has stopped, is that it is worthless. playback is glitchy on every clip on every channel, including the clips that came with it. audio stutters like a politician telling lies.

we were also handed a pile of clips from who-knows-where, germany which are a mix of .avi files and .mxf files. the avi's will play (sorta) in media player, so obviously we need the right codec. i don't get it. "here's a bunch of stuff i've rendered.... good luck playing it." "oh, you want the codec we used... now you're just being difficult"

man, i'm grumpy. i get paid all the same, so why the hell should i care?

maybe it's because i've been depressed all day and later found out that my mother's dog died. not that i care, but i feel like life is evaporating away while i'm chasing down codecs that some euro trash has neglected to send.

no offense if you are from europe, i hate americans too. stop being scared little robots. when will you uprise and take life into your own hands. it's your life, be responsible for your own actions and include some fracking codecs.

that's not even the start of it.... grrrr

don't get me wrong, some robots are really quite nice

pulled a million miles of cable

hands hurt
avid is being annoying.
pricks at footy.. that's a different blog
where does the ability come from where someone can be a prick, but be unwilling to acknowledge it.
i'm not above it, but i know when i am... again, wrong blog.

so, another building is shutting down.
we went to liberate some camera cable... old stuff.
we got quite a bit more than we bargained for.
4 big-old camera cables
a ton of 5 wire stuff
a stage snake... 500 footer? 12 channel rapco stuff.
all the cameras work after so many years, sony something-or-others.
they don't look so bad either.. well they do when cable comp is set wrong but duh.

spent the rest of the day one a witch hunt for a clip.
and chasing down encoder gremlins. i think i hear that giant sucking sound coming from redmond again.

first vid blog... i said i would do it.