I ended up wiping my desktop machine today and reinstalling everything in order to tackle these Final Cut Studio issues before an upcoming edit. I avoided the QT 7.2 update like the plague this time around and everything seems to be okay (knock, knock). What a waste of a day. FYI: I installed all other updates that became reccomended by System Update and manually downloaded the QT 7.1.6 Update. Seems to be the best way to go.
So much stuff going on the next couple of days, looks like the post backlog is going to get bigger. Oh Boy. Give a brother some love.
The Vermont Film Commission’s search for a new executive director ended today, as they announced that Joe Bookchin will be taking the position. Joe is not only a friend, but was a college professor of mine and has been a great advisor and asset to my own success over the years. We are very fortunate to have him at the helm! Read more in the Times Argus Article here.
Many of you may be aware of some of the issues out there revolving around the Final Cut Studio 2 release. A lot of the smaller issues have been addressed, and I for one have counted myself lucky in that I have avoided most of these complications - this may have to do with the fact that most of the time I do an upgrade I usually wipe and reinstall.
From the get go my Mac Book Pro seemed to run FCP Studio 2 flawlessly, on the other hand my PPC G5 showed a little evidence of some bugs, these seemed to be ironed out with the FCP 6.0.1 update. With the release of the Quicktime 7.2 update all hell broke loose, all over the place. A major portion of users have experienced major issues with the QT 7.2 update as I have reported on here before as well and I hate to say that I have been added to that list myself.
Most applications function okay, though motion is buggy and compressor doesn’t start at all. I’m feverishly trying to attack this problem. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled everything 3 times now including quicktime and nothing seems to work. It blows because I’ve come to rely on compressor for quite sometime and I need it now!
Stay away from the QT 7.2 update if at all possible. I would hope that Apple was wokring to address this issue, but its been a serious problem for weeks and there hasn’t been any sign of a resolution on the horizon.
Amongst the many other things I’ve been meaning to get to, the one I’m slowly tackling now is cleaning out the abundance of miscellaneous stuff that has found itself “archived” in my office. (By archived, i mean thrown in the first empty space). I just stumbled across a funny list I made several years ago after being inspired by Harmonie Korine’s book “A Crack Up at the Race Riots”.
Here goes:
Books I Will Write
Beyond the Second Star, Before Dawn: The Secret Life of Peter Pan
Cocaine and You : A Beginner’s Guide
The House the Mouse Built : From Epcot to Ice Bucket
From Bags to Bitches
10 Ways to Serenade a Tree
Puppy Love : A Beastiality Quickstart Guide
Simoan Like Me
Don’t Cream in My Gene Pool
I Tried Not To Laugh When You Died
Kissing Ben Stein
Diva Delightful!
Shut Up Bitch: A Guide to Couples Counciling
Mommy I’m Bleeding, Daddy I’m Dying
Applause: Life With The Clap
Illegitament: An Autobiography
Fun With Roofies
Yes, We Do Love Your Sister More
Sickle Cell, Sickle Sucks!
How to be an Honest Jew
Mommy and the Mailman
My Undying Lust: Zombie Erotica
My Life as a Tart
Coming into Your Own: An Incest Survivor’s Guide
Another goodie from the past week or so, this is a morbidly intriguing multimedia piece by 7days Blogger, Cathy Resmer.
It’s a great use of new media on the web. Although somewhat disturbing, its beautiful in the way a train wreck is. Cathy did a great job putting this together. I’m trying to push that they include this short piece in the Vermont International Film Festival in some way. It would be great as a short before the featured presentations. Take a Look!
The lack of a laptop has seriously slowed my posting down. I’ve got a bunch of stuff I scribbled on napkins that is going to come up soon. I’m back in town for a couple of days so expect to see about 3 dozen posts this weekend, but first I have to finish a short film I’m DPing.
In the meantime check out this fucking hysterical video below. Jim Geduldick over at Toolfarm.com just IM’d me this viral he made for myeverything.com. Absolutely Brilliant. I can’t stop laughing at it. Apparently he has another one in the works. Good job Jim!
A couple of days ago Panasonic released watch basically is the equivalent of the P2 Viewer (PC) software for Mac! This is good news and indication that free metadata support it’s way (crossing fingers). The P2 Contents Management Software can be found here.
Specs are here.
The software is not compatible with the Quicktime 7.2 update, in fact it is only compatible with 7.1.6. Already having upgraded to 7.2 I installed the software and took my chances. The first noticeable thing, which is also mentioned in the specs on Panasonic’s site, is that the audio levels aren’t available with QT 7.2 installed.
One cool thing about this is that you can create metadata files within it to upload to your camera. No more constructing them by hand or making them on a PC!
A little bit about what the P2 Content Management System does:
Features
This is an application program that ingests P2 contents by using PC and manages them in PC.
P2 viewer is built in and able to view P2 contents easily like the P2 Viewer.
Contents can be speedily retrieved by automatically constructing the data base by using the metadata of P2 contents at the time of ingestion.
Able to add, change and delete metadata registered in P2 contents and the data base by the simple method.
Able to handout and keep them as back ups by copying P2 contents onto HDD and Optical media.
Main Functions
Display P2 contents data
Ingest P2 contents in PC.
Retrieve metadata of P2 contents
Classification
Display and Editing of property
Viewing (playback of contents)
Display and editing of text memos
Recording and delete of voice memos
Export P2 contents data
Production of Backup data for P2 CMS format
Archive P2 contents data (moving to optical media disk)
Restore
A couple of screen grabs I made, below.
I’m staying at the Oakland Airport Hilton in Oakland, CA. Were packing up now and getting ready to head to the airport for a long flight across the country back to the east coast. Apparently when he was in Highschool, Tom Hanks worked as a bellhop here. They have a picture of him from the “Joe Versus the Volcano” years framed in the lobby. I’m preoccupied with trying to figure out how to take a dump on the lobby restroom and send it twenty five years into the past so that Tom Hanks has to clean up my mess.
Off to the airport.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting the premiere of “Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa”
The film was shot by my friend, Reed Morano. I worked with Reed this past winter on a film entitled “Frozen River”.
In northern New Mexico lies a patch of dry, sandy land, 16 square miles in size, 25 miles from the nearest town, a world away from our own. Welcome to the Mesa, a community of misfits, veterans, runaways and more than a few outlaws. This loosely woven family lives without running water or electricity––literally off the grid––and in their postmodern Wild West, they consider themselves patriots. But their underground economy is fueled by the growth and distribution of marijuana, which has brought the community under the suspicious eye of the government. When some of the rebellious runaway teens begin to stockpile arms and food taken from others, this fringe society has to take steps to keep their world from falling into chaos.
Disillusioned after the death of their father and the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, film editor Jeremy Stulberg and his sister, artist Randy Stulberg, took to the road, happening upon this melting pot of forgotten Americans. They documented not just the alternative community but also the many stories of the disparate individuals who exist at the intersection of utopian ideals and post-apocalyptic nightmares.
The premiere is Thursday August 16th at 8pm and is open to the general public. If you’re in NYC I encourage you to check it out.