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